Dr Michael Newton (Leiden University, Leiden University, Lecturer)

Gebundenes Buch

The Origins of Science Fiction

Beschreibung

A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.

Autor

MICHAEL NEWTON is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002) and Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012). On the subject of cinema, he has written Show People: A History of the Film Star (2019) and books on Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son and Victorian Fairy Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories for Penguin Classics, and co-edited the anthology, Literature and Science, 1660-1834: Science as Polite Culture (Pickering & Chatto). He teaches literature and film at Leiden University.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 140mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780198853619
• ISBN-10: 0198853610
• Artikelnr.: 61931032