The Origins of Science Fiction Michael Newton (Editor)

The Origins of Science Fiction Michael Newton (Editor) – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198853619,0198853610,9780192595225,0192595229

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• ISBN 10: 0192595229
• ISBN 13: 9780192595225
• Author: Michael Newton

This anthology provides 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. In this way, the book shows the vitality and literary diversity of the field, and also expresses something of the potent appeal of the visionary, the fascination with science, and the allure of an imagined future that characterised this period. An excellent resource for those interested in science fiction, and also an essential volume for understanding the development of the genre.

In his introduction, Michael Newton draws together literary influences from Jonathan Swift to Mary Shelley, the interest in the irrational and dreaming mind, and the relation of the tales to the fact of Empire and the discoveries made by anthropology. He also considers how the figure of the alien and non-human ‘other’ complicated contemporary definitions of the human being.

Table contents:

Part 1: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Mortal Immortal

Part 2: Edgar Allan Poe: The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

Part 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini’s Daughter

Part 4: Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

Part 5: Fitz-James O’Brien: The Diamond Lens

Part 6: George Eliot: The Lifted Veil*

Part 7: Grant Allen: Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery

Part 8: Frank R. Stockton: The Water-Devil: A Marine Tale

Part 9: H. G. Wells: The Crystal Egg

Part 10: Rudyard Kipling: ‘Wireless’

Part 11: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Hall Bedroom

Part 12: H. G. Wells: The Country of the Blind

Part 13: E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops

Part 14: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Terror of Blue John Gap

Part 15: Jack London: The Red One:

Part 15: Gertrude Barrows Bennett (‘Francis Stevens’): Friend Island

Part 16: W. E. B. Du Bois: The comet

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