Michael Newton

The Origins of Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision...' This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. It moves from Mary Shelley to H. G. Wells, from Edgar Allan Poe to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from George Eliot to Jack London. Before the term 'science fiction' was established, writers pursued a new and strange subject matter, to be written about in a startlingly new way. The selected stories in this collection reflect the many diverse paths that led towards science fiction, including scientific Gothic, dystopian fantasies, psychological hoaxes, feminist parables, fictions of time-travel, adventure stories, uncanny tales, and stories of alien encounters. The anthology unveils the power of the literature of the period and exposes our fascination with scientific discovery and the allure (and threat) of the imagined future. This edition includes an introduction by Michael Newton setting out the themes of the tales and exploring the development of science fiction. Newton explores how the stories engage with anxiety about the limits of the rational mind, the fact of Empire and the discoveries of anthropology, the uneasy figure of the scientist, the rapid development of technology, and the presence of the alien other. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192595232
• Artikelnr.: 63648101

Autorenporträt

Michael Newton is the author of avage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002) and Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012). On the subject of cinema, he has written Show People: A History of the Film Star (2019) and books on Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son and Victorian Fairy Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories for Penguin Classics, and co-edited the anthology, Literature and Science, 1660-1834: Science as Polite Culture (2002). He teaches literature and film at Leiden University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of the Origins of Science Fiction
The Mortal Immortal
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Rappaccini's Daughter
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Diamond Lens
The Lifted Veil
Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery
The Water-Devil. A Marine Tale
The Crystal Egg
'Wireless'
The Hall Bedroom
The Country of the Blind
The Machine Stops
The Terror of Blue John Gap
The Red One
Friend Island
The Comet
Explanatory Notes