1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454636003321

Autore

Booker M. Keith

Titolo

The science fiction handbook [[electronic resource] /] / M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-78268-932-X

1-282-11716-5

9786612117169

1-4443-1035-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThomasAnne-Marie

Disciplina

823.0876209

823/.087609

Soggetti

Science fiction, English - History and criticism

Science fiction, American - History and criticism

Science fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Science Fiction Handbook; Contents; Part 1 Introduction; Science Fiction in Western Culture; Part 2 Brief Historical Surveys of Science Fiction Subgenres; The Time-Travel Narrative; The Alien Invasion Narrative; The Space Opera; Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction; Dystopian Science Fiction; Utopian Fiction; Feminism, Science Fiction, and Gender; Science Fiction and Satire; Cyberpunk and Posthuman Science Fiction; Multicultural Science Fiction; Part 3 Representative Science Fiction Authors; Isaac Asimov (1920-1992); Margaret Atwood (1939-); Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)

Samuel R. Delany (1942-)Philip K. Dick (1928-1982); William Gibson (1948-); Nicola Griffith (1960-); Joe Haldeman (1943-); Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988); Nalo Hopkinson (1960-); Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-); Ian McDonald (1960-); China Miéville (1972-); George Orwell (1903-1950); Marge Piercy (1936-); Frederik Pohl (1919-); Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-); Neal Stephenson (1959-); H. G. Wells (1866-1946); Part 4 Discussions of Individual Texts; H. G. Wells, The Time Machine



(1895); H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898); George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950)

Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kormbluth, The Space Merchants (1952)Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959); Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974); Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974); Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976); Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton (1976); William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984); Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985); Octavia Butler, ''Xenogenesis'' Trilogy (1987-1989); Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992); Nicola Griffith, Ammonite (1994); Kim Stanley Robinson, ''Mars'' Trilogy (1993-1996)

Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber (2000)China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (2000); Ian McDonald, River of Gods (2005); Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fictionEach subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenreFeatures entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346035403321

Autore

Hilary Hinds

Titolo

A Cultural History of Twin Beds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (296 p.)

Collana

Home

Disciplina

645.409

Soggetti

Beds - History

Beds - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures -- Series Preface: Why Home? -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: At Home with Twin Beds -- 1. Double or Twin? -- Part One: Hygiene -- 2. Air in the Bedroom -- 3. Vital Force -- 4. Coda: Modern Sleep -- Part Two: Modernity -- 5. Anti-Victorianism and the Modern Home -- 6. Modern by Design -- 7. Coda: The Mise-en-Sce`ne of Modern MarriagePart Three: Marriage -- 8. At Home with a Stranger -- 9. Marie Stopes and Modern Marriage -- 10. Late Victorian Marital Advice -- 11. Abstinence and Ambivalence -- 12. Twin Beds: The Literary Verdict -- Conclusion: Together and Apart -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Through tracing the history of twin beds, this book reveals unexpected perspectives on the social and sexual mores of late 19th- and 20th Britain.