Histories of the Future
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-77641-4 (ISBN)
ALAN SANDISON is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of New England, NSW. His publications include The Wheel of Empire (1967), The Last Man in Europe (1974: later revised and enlarged as George Orwell: After 1984 [1986]), and Robert Louis Stevenson and the Appearance of Modernism (1996). ROBERT DINGLEY is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New England, NSW and was formerly a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. His publications include The Land of the Golden Fleece (1995).
List of Plates Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introducing the Future: The Dawn of Science Fiction Criticism; H.Harrison History in SF: What (Hasn't Yet) Happened in History; K.MacLeod The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay's New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age; R.Dingley Celluloid Scientists: Futures Visualised; R.D.Haynes Losing the Sense and Space: Forster's The Machine Stops and Jameson's Third Machine Age; B.Battaglia Boys, Battleships, Books: The Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898-1919; B.Brasington American Dreams and Edwardian Aspirations: Technological Innovation and Temporal Uncertainty in Narratives of Expectation; C.E.Gannon Filing the Future: Reporting on World War Three; D.Seed The Map of the Apocalypse: Nuclear War and the Space of Dystopia in American Science Fiction; B.Baker A New World Made to Order: Making Sense of the Future in a Global Era; A.Spark Sign, Symbol, Power: The New Martian Novel; R.Crossley Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: The Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction; T.Shippey Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity; D.Broderick Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.11.2000 |
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Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 202 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-333-77641-0 / 0333776410 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-333-77641-4 / 9780333776414 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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