Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century : An Anthology - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0813521521 ISBN 13 : 9780813521527

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Winner of the 2008 American Studies Association's Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize "for lifetime of achievement and service"

This selection of unusual storeis by important American writers-Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Bellamy and Twain-and by less well-known tellers such as Ambrose Bierce, S. Weir Mitchell and Fitz-James O'Brien, challenges the commonly held belief that science fiction is a twenthiethcentury phenomenon, or that it began with Jule Verne and H, . G. Wells. Here are tales of marvelous inventions, automanta, biolgocial and psychological experiments, utopias, extra-sensory perception and time and space travel. Many of them have been out of print since before World War I, but they remain high in intrinsic interest of the general reader and for the specialist.

The accompanying critical essays explore the relationships between science fiction and other financial modes, and illuminate the nataure of the bonds betwen science and society and fantasies and social aspirations. Professor Franklin also offers an original, theoretical definition of science ficiton. This book comes as a revelatin. One of the best-edited anthologies I have ever encountered...Mr. Franklin's critical introductions, containing much valuable information about many works not included in this book, are as interesting as the stories he prints.

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À propos de l?auteur

H. BRUCE FRANKLIN is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark and the author or editor of sixteen books on culture and history. He has been a leading international figure in the teaching and study of science fiction for over three decades.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813521521
• ISBN 13: 9780813521527
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Éditeur: Franklin H. Bruce
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible