03501nam 2200613 450 991046486920332120200520144314.00-8195-7439-2(CKB)3710000000125243(EBL)1707055(OCoLC)881416976(SSID)ssj0001228682(PQKBManifestationID)11824913(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001228682(PQKBWorkID)11176793(PQKB)10070350(MiAaPQ)EBC1707055(OCoLC)881183840(MdBmJHUP)muse33557(Au-PeEL)EBL1707055(CaPaEBR)ebr10881449(EXLCZ)99371000000012524320140619h20142014 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtccrVintage Visions Essays on Early Science Fiction /edited by Arthur B. Evans ; contributors Ishbel Addyman [and eighteen others]Middletown, Connecticut :Wesleyan University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (447 p.)Early Classics of Science FictionDescription based upon print version of record.0-8195-7437-6 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Vintage Visions; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Cyrano de Bergerac's Epistemological Bodies: "Pregnant with a Thousand Definitions" (1998, with an afterword by Ishbel Addyman); 2 Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1985); 3 German Theories of Science Fiction: Jean Paul, Kurd Lasswitz, and After (1976); 4 Monstrosity, Suffering, Subjectivity, and Sympathetic Community in Frankenstein and "The Structure of Torture" (2009); 5 Science Fiction vs. Scientific Fiction in France: From Jules Verne to J.-H. Rosny Aîné (1988)6 Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900 (1997, with an afterword by Margaret Clarke)7 The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve (2009); 8 Desde Júpiter: Chile's Earliest Science-Fiction Novel (1995); 9 The First Wave: Latin American Science Fiction Discovers Its Roots (2007); 10 "Tell Us All About Little Rosebery": Topicality and Temporality in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (2001); 11 The Phenomenology of Robots: Confrontations with Death in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (1999); 12 Zamyatin and the Nightmare of Technology (1984)13 "The Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe Type of Story": Hugo Gernsback's History of Science Fiction (1992)14 The Historical Death Ray and Science Fiction in the 1920's and 1930's (2010); 15 C. L. Moore and the Conventions of Women's Science Fiction (1980, with an afterword by Veronica Hollinger); 16 On Stapledon's Star Maker (1987, with an afterword by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay,Jr.); 150 Key Works of Early Science Fiction; Bibliography of Criticism on Early Science Fiction; ContributorsTop scholars investigate the nature and variety of early science fictionWesleyan early classics of science fiction series.Science fictionHistory and criticismElectronic books.Science fictionHistory and criticism.809.3/8762Evans Arthur B.Addyman IshbelMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464869203321Vintage Visions2482129UNINA