'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America

Herausgeber: Gutjahr, Paul C.

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Produktbeschreibung

'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America offers critical textual editions with introductions, explanatory footnotes and appendixes of the four moon voyage stories written by Americans before the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781783087402
• ISBN-10: 1783087404
• Artikelnr.: 49099783

Autorenporträt

Paul C. Gutjahr is Ruth Halls Professor of English at Indiana University, US.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; Introduction; Acknowledgements; PART I: VOYAGE TO THE MOON: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and other Lunarians (1827)
Joseph Atterley (George Tucker); CHAPTER I: Atterley's birth and education
He makes a voyage
Founders off the Burman coast
Adventures in that Empire
Meets with a learned Brahmin from Benares; CHAPTER II: The Brahmin's illness
He reveals an important secret to Atterley
Curious information concerning the Moon
The Glonglims
They plan a voyage to the Moon; CHAPTER III: The Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage
Description of their travelling machine
Incidents of the voyage
The appearance of the earth; Africa; Greece
The Brahmin's speculations on the different races of men
National character; CHAPTER IV: Continuation of the voyage
View of Europe; Atlantic Ocean; America
Speculations on the future destiny of the United States
Moral reflections
Pacific Ocean
Hypothesis on the origin of the Moon; CHAPTER V: The voyage continued
Second view of Asia
The Brahmin's speculations concerning India
Increase of the Moon's attraction
Appearance of the Moon
They land on the Moon; CHAPTER VI: Some account of Morosofia, and its chief city, Alamatua
Singular dresses of the Lunar ladies
Religious self
denial
Glonglim miser and spendthrift; CHAPTER VII: Physical peculiarities of the Moon
Celestial phenomena
Farther description of the Lunarians
National prejudice
Lightness of bodies
The Brahmin carries Atterley to sup with a philosopher
His character and opinions; CHAPTER VIII: A celebrated physician: his ingenious theories in physics: his mechanical inventions
The feather
hunting Glonglim; CHAPTER IX: The fortune
telling philosopher, who inspected the finger nails: his visiters
Another philosopher, who judged of the character by the hair
The fortune
teller duped
Predatory warfare; CHAPTER X: The travellers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great projector: his breed of cattle: his apparatus for cooking
He is taken dangerously ill; CHAPTER XI: Lunarian physicians: their consultation
While they dispute the patient recovers
The travellers visit the celebrated teacher Lozzi Pozzi; CHAPTER XII: Election of the Numnoonce, or town
constable
Violence of parties
Singular institution of the Syringe Boys
The prize
fighters
Domestic manufactures; CHAPTER XIII: Description of the Happy Valley
The laws, customs, and manners of the Okalbians
Theory of population
Rent
System of government; CHAPTER XIV: Further account of Okalbia
The Field of Roses
Curious superstition concerning that flower
The pleasures of smell traced to association, by a Glonglim philosopher; CHAPTER XV: Atterley goes to the great monthly fair
Its various exhibitions; difficulties
Preparations to leave the Moon
Curiosities procured by Atterley
Regress to the Earth; CHAPTER XVI: The Brahmin gives Atterley a history of his life; CHAPTER XVII: The Brahmin's story continued
The voyage concluded
Atterley and the Brahmin separate
Atterley arrives in New
York; PART II: "Hans Pfaall
A Tale" (June 1835) by Edgar Allan Poe; PART III: "Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel" (August 25
30, 1835) by Richard Adam Locke; PART IV: "Orrin Lindsay's Plan of Aerial Navigation" (May 1847) by John Leonard Riddell; Appendix A: Excerpt from Washington Irving's A History of New York, 1809; Appendix B: Excerpts from "Anonymous Review of A Voyage to the Moon," reprinted from American Quarterly Review No. 5 (March 1828); Appendix C: "Note" added for inclusion in the "Hans Pfaall" version in Poe's collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840; Appendix D: "Richard Adam Locke" in Edgar Allan Poe's The Literati, 1850; Appendix E: Contemporary Responses to Richard Adam Locke's "Great Astronomical Discoveries"; Appendix F: P. T. Barnum on Locke's "Moon Hoax" (1866).