Science Fiction and the Modern World – The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolution…
Science Fiction and the Modern WorldThe Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age\nAuthor(s): Anastasia Klimchynskaya\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781836244905, 978-1836244905\nSynopsis\nThe long nineteenth century was marked by a combination of political upheaval, technological transformation, and revolutionary scientific discovery that birthed a contradictory set of ideas about humanitys place in the world and the scope of its power. Science Fiction and the Modern World reads the emergence of science fiction during this turbulent period as an expression of the ensuing recalibration of humanitys relationship to the natural world. Attending to a variety of authors across linguistic and national boundaries, including Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Albert Robida, Arthur Conan Doyle, and [url] Wells, as well as other primary sources, this book demonstrates how the nascent genre of .
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