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245 00 $aAnticipations :$bessays on early science fiction and its precursors /$cedited by David Seed.
250 $aSyracuse University Press ed.
260 $a[Syracuse, N.Y.] :$bSyracuse University Press,$c1995.
300 $axvi, 225 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aUtopianism and communitarianism
500 $a"First published 1995 by Liverpool University Press ... United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tPreface /$rDavid Seed --$t'Able Mechanick': The Life and the Adventures of Peter Wilkins and the Eighteenth-Century Fantastic Voyage /$rPaul Baines --$tScience Fiction by Gaslight: An Introduction to English-Language Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century /$rEdward James --$tFrankenstein and the Origins of Science Fiction /$rBrian Stableford --$tFrom Mary Shelley to The War of the Worlds: The Thames Valley Catastrophe /$rPatrick Parrinder --$tBreaking the Bounds: The Rhetoric of Limits in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, his Contemporaries and Adaptors /$rDavid Seed --$tVerne's Amazing Journeys /$rM. Hammerton --$tImagining the Future: Predictive Fiction in the Nineteenth Century /$rBrian Nellist --$tImagination and Inversion in Nineteenth-Century Utopian Writing /$rSimon Dentith --$tPrediction, Programme and Fantasy in Jack London's The Iron Heel /$rTony Barley --$tAlien Dreams: Kipling /$rStephen R. L. Clark --$tLesbians and Virgins: The New Motherhood in Herland /$rVal Gough.
520 $aThis volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning.
520 8 $aSeveral of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege one individual, but rather to look at the gradual convergence of a number of different genres and at the process of continuing influence of one writer on his/her successor.
520 8 $aThe collection strikes a balance between a discussion of the established names within the field and less well known works such as Symzonia and The Battle of Dorking. The volume concludes with a consideration of the utopias and dystopias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
650 0 $aScience fiction, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111317
650 0 $aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111190
650 0 $aScience fiction, French$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aUtopias in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141637
650 0 $aVoyages, Imaginary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144441
650 0 $aLiterary form.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077490
700 1 $aSeed, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78090449
830 0 $aUtopianism and communitarianism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90655884
852 00 $bglx$hPR830.S35$iA58 1995