Science Fiction and Anticipation

Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel
Herausgeber: Montoneri, Bernard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Science Fiction and Anticipation focuses on American and European influential works of science fiction published between the 18th and 20th century. The book explores how writers presented in this book envisioned the future of their country, and it discusses issues such as ethics, censorship, racism, sexism, and slavery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781666918137
• ISBN-10: 166691813X
• Artikelnr.: 64140076

Autorenporträt

Bernard Montoneri is independent researcher in Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Mercier's The Year 2440, a Dream and a "Thought Experiment"
Bernard Montoneri
Chapter Two: Origins of Hard Science Fiction: An Approach
Fernando Darío González Grueso
Chapter Three: Beyond Utopia: The Dystopian Capitalist Society in Paris in
the Twentieth Century (1863)
Murielle El Hajj Nahas
Chapter Four: With Second Sight and Afro-pessimism: The Im/Possibility of
Black Utopia in Martin R. Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America
Michaela Keck
Chapter Five: The Phenomenon of Human-Animal Hybridization in Russian
Science Fiction of the 20th Century
Anna Toom
Chapter Six: Barjavel, Ravage: roman extraordinaire (1943)
Bernard Montoneri and Murielle El Hajj Nahas
Chapter Seven: Dystopia as the First-person World: Rereading E. M.
Forster's The Machine Stops as a Pandemic Novel of a Global Society
Akiyoshi Suzuki
Chapter Eight: Orwellian Themes and Echoes in Today's World-A Perspective
Beena Giridharan
Chapter Nine: The 19th Century American Socialism: A Vision of A Future
Utopia
Majed S Al-Lehaibi and Bernard Montoneri
Chapter Ten: The Invention of Morel, a Projection on Dreams and Immortality
Miguel Ángel González Chandía
Appendix: Some key titles in science fiction
Index
About the Editor and Contributors