Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its Precursors

by David Seed

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This 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.

Several 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0815626401

ISBN13:9780815626404

Release Date:May 1995

Publisher:Syracuse University Press

Length:242 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy

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