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The Origins of Science Fiction
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The Origins of Science Fiction  

Edited by: Michael Newton

Abstract

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.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Published in Print:
Mar 2022
ISBN:
9780198853619
Published online:
May 2023
DOI:
10.1093/owc/9780198853619.001.0001

Author

Michael Newton, editor


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  • British and Irish Literature
  • Science Fiction

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Contents

  • Front Matter
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • Note on the Texts
    • Select Bibliography
    • A Chronology of Science Fiction from the Birth of Mary Shelley to the Death of E. M. Forster
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Mortal ImmortalMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Conversation of Eiros and CharmionEdgar Allan Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini’s Daughter
  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  • Fitz-James O’brien: The Diamond Lens
  • George Eliot: The Lifted Veil
  • Grant Allen: Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery
  • FRANK R. STOCKTON: The Water-Devil: A Marine Tale
  • H. G. WELLS: The Crystal Egg
  • Rudyard Kipling: ‘Wireless’
  • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Hall Bedroom
  • H. G. Wells: The Country of the Blind
  • E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Terror of Blue John Gap
  • Jack London: The Red One
  • Gertrude Barrows Bennett (‘Francis Stevens’): Friend Island
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: The Comet
  • End Matter
    • Explanatory Notes: Mary Shelley
  • Oxford University Press
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date: 03 October 2024

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