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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554497603321

Autore

Botting Eileen Hunt <1971->

Titolo

Artificial life after Frankenstein / / Eileen Hunt Botting

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-8122-9772-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism

Artificial life - Social aspects

Artificial life - Political aspects

Artificial life - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE Learning to Love the Bomb -- INTRODUCTION Mary Shelley and the Genesis of Political Science Fictions -- Interlude Births and Afterlives -- CHAPTER I Apocalyptic Fictions -- CHAPTER II Un/natural Fictions -- CHAPTER III Loveless Fictions -- CODA A Vindication of the Rights and Duties of Artificial Creatures -- Acknowledgments -- POSTSCRIPT “The Journal of Sorrow” -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"This book looks at the many genres of science fiction (literature, television, film, etc.) to examine ways in which people have grappled with their fears of technology"--