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

The Origins of Science Fiction

Herausgeber: Newton, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of the Origins of Science Fiction
The Mortal Immortal
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Rappaccini's Daughter
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Diamond Lens
The Lifted Veil
Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery
The Water-Devil. A Marine Tale
The Crystal Egg
'Wireless'
The Hall Bedroom
The Country of the Blind
The Machine Stops
The Terror of Blue John Gap
The Red One
Friend Island
The Comet
Explanatory Notes