Nineteenth Century Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Volume I: Experiments, Inventions, and Case Studies
Redaktion: Seed, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000899108
• Artikelnr.: 68117577

Autorenporträt

David Seed holds a chair in the English Department of Liverpool University. He has written and edited a number of works on Science Fiction including Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and its Precursors (1995) and a critical edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race . He is currently co-editor of Liverpool University Press's international Science Fiction Texts and Studies series.

Inhaltsangabe

VOLUME I: 1818-1858
Introduction
1. Frankenstein
or; The Modern Prometheus
2. 'Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman'
3. Travels in Phrenologasto
4. 'The Metempsychosis'
5. The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
6. 'Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel
L.L.D
F.R.S
&c. at The Cape of Good Hope'
7. 'The New Frankenstein'
8. Sturmer: A Tale of Mesmerism
9. 'The Artist of the Beautiful'
10. 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'
11. 'The Diamond Lens'
12. 'The Lifted Veil'
13. A Strange Story
14. 'The Case of George Dedlow'
15. The Huge Hunter; or
The Steam Man of the Prairies
16. 'The Case of Summerfield'
17. 'The Automaton Ear'
18. The Age of Science: A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century
19. 'The Man-Ufactory'
20. 'An Automatic Enigma'
21. 'The Ablest Man in the World'
Bibliography
Appendix: 'Science-Fiction'
Index