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Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction, edited by Arthur B. Evans

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Summary
Top scholars investigate the nature and variety of early science fiction
Language
eng
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1 online resource (ix, 433 pages)
Contents
  • Cover; Vintage Visions; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions" (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman); 2 Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985); 3 German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976); 4 Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and "The Structure of Torture" (2009); 5 Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988)
  • 6 Future-WarFiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke)7 The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve (2009); 8 Desde Júpiter: Chile's Earliest Science-FictionNovel (1995); 9 The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007); 10 "Tell Us All About Little Rosebery": Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (2001); 11 The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1999); 12 Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984)
  • 13 "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010); 15 C.L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger); 16 On Stapledon's Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.); 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction; Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction; Contributors
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9780819574398
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Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction
Title
Vintage visions
Title remainder
essays on early science fiction
Statement of responsibility
edited by Arthur B. Evans
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Top scholars investigate the nature and variety of early science fiction
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N$T
Dewey number
809.3/8762
Index
no index present
Language note
English
LC call number
PN3433.5
LC item number
.V56 2014eb
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
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Evans, Arthur B.
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Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series
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  • Science fiction
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Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction, edited by Arthur B. Evans
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Contents
  • Cover; Vintage Visions; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions" (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman); 2 Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985); 3 German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976); 4 Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and "The Structure of Torture" (2009); 5 Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988)
  • 6 Future-WarFiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke)7 The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve (2009); 8 Desde Júpiter: Chile's Earliest Science-FictionNovel (1995); 9 The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007); 10 "Tell Us All About Little Rosebery": Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (2001); 11 The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1999); 12 Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984)
  • 13 "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010); 15 C.L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger); 16 On Stapledon's Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.); 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction; Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction; Contributors
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881183840
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1 online resource (ix, 433 pages)
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9780819574398
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(OCoLC)881183840
Label
Vintage visions : essays on early science fiction, edited by Arthur B. Evans
Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Cover; Vintage Visions; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions" (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman); 2 Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985); 3 German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976); 4 Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and "The Structure of Torture" (2009); 5 Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988)
  • 6 Future-WarFiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke)7 The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve (2009); 8 Desde Júpiter: Chile's Earliest Science-FictionNovel (1995); 9 The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007); 10 "Tell Us All About Little Rosebery": Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (2001); 11 The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1999); 12 Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984)
  • 13 "The Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920s and 1930s (2010); 15 C.L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger); 16 On Stapledon's Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.); 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction; Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction; Contributors
Control code
881183840
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (ix, 433 pages)
File format
unknown
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online
Isbn
9780819574398
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unknown
Media category
computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)881183840

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