British Fantasy And Science Fiction Writers Before World War I
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British Fantasy And Science Fiction Writers Before World War I
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Author : Darren Harris-Fain
language : en
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Release Date : 1997
British Fantasy And Science Fiction Writers Before World War I written by Darren Harris-Fain and has been published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction during a time when science, technology and industrialization made increasingly impressive inroads from the Enlightenment to World War I.A gradual emphasis on social improvement, including literature, involved efforts to increase literacy through expanding material to read. During this period, publication of newspapers, penny dreadfuls and dime novels lead to pulp magazines and other popular periodicals.
Dictionary Of Literary Biography
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Author : Darren Harris-Fain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Dictionary Of Literary Biography written by Darren Harris-Fain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Authors, English categories.
Vintage Visions
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Author : Arthur B. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-11
Vintage Visions written by Arthur B. Evans and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with Fiction categories.
Vintage Visions is a seminal collection of scholarly essays on early works of science fiction and its antecedents. From Cyrano de Bergerac in 1657 to Olaf Stapledon in 1937, this anthology focuses on an unusually broad range of authors and works in the genre as it emerged across the globe, including the United States, Russia, Europe, and Latin America. The book includes material that will be of interest to both scholars and fans, including an extensive bibliography of criticism on early science fiction—the first of its kind—and a chronological listing of 150 key early works. Before Dr. Strangelove, future-war fiction was hugely popular in nineteenth-century Great Britain. Before Terminator, a French author depicted Thomas Edison as the creator of the perfect female android. These works and others are featured in this critical anthology. Contributors include Paul K. Alkon, Andrea Bell, Josh Bernatchez, I. F. Clarke, William J. Fanning Jr., William B. Fischer, Allison de Fren, Susan Gubar, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Kamila Kinyon, Stanislaw Lem, Patrick A. McCarthy, Sylvie Romanowski, Nicholas Ruddick, and Gary Westfahl.
Science Fiction Authors
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Author : Maura Heaphy
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-11-30
Science Fiction Authors written by Maura Heaphy and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
For students, scholars, readers' advisors, and curious SF readers and fans, this guide provides an easy-to-use launch pad for researching and learning more about science fiction writers and their work. Emphasizing the best popular and contemporary authors, this book covers 100 SF writers, providing for each: • a brief biographical sketch, including a quote from theauthor, awards, etc. • a list of the author's major works (including editions and other writings) • research sources-biographies, criticism, research guides, and web sites • In addition, you'll find read-alike lists for selected authors. For anyone wanting to find information on popular SF authors, this should be the first stop.
Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction Writers
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Author : Douglas Ivison
language : en
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Release Date : 2002
Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction Writers written by Douglas Ivison and has been published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays on the writers and works of Canadian fantasy and science-fiction that have made this genre an important component of Canadian literature, one that must be considered by Canadian literary scholars. Documents the rapid development of Canadian fantasy and science-fiction from the early 1980s to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Science Fiction
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Author : Roger Luckhurst
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2005-05-06
Science Fiction written by Roger Luckhurst and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre. Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a constantly modulating record of how human embodiment is transformed by scientific and technological change and how the very sense of self is imaginatively recomposed in popular fictions that range from utopian possibility to Gothic terror. This highly readable study charts the overlapping yet distinct histories of British and American science fiction, with commentary on the central authors, magazines, movements and texts from 1880 to the present day. It will be an invaluable guide and resource for all students taking courses on science fiction, technoculture and popular literature, but will equally be fascinating for anyone who has ever enjoyed a science fiction book.
Victorian Studies
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Author : Sharon W. Propas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-17
Victorian Studies written by Sharon W. Propas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with History categories.
First published in 2006, this work is a valuable guide for the researcher in Victorian Studies. Updated to include electronic resources, this book provides guides to catalogs, archives, museums, collections and databases containing material on the Victorian period. It organises the vast array of reference sources by discipline to help researchers tailor their investigations.
A Very British Genre
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Author : Paul Kincaid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-01-01
A Very British Genre written by Paul Kincaid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Fantasy fiction, English categories.
Women And The Victorian Occult
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Author : Tatiana Kontou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Women And The Victorian Occult written by Tatiana Kontou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Increasingly, contemporary scholarship reveals the strong connection between Victorian women and the world of the nineteenth-century supernatural. Women were intrinsically bound to the occult and the esoteric from mediums who materialised spirits to the epiphanic experiences of the New Woman, from theosophy to telepathy. This volume addresses the various ways in which Victorian women expressed themselves and were constructed by the occult through a broad range of texts. By examining the roles of women as automatic writing mediums, spiritualists, authors, editors, theosophists, socialists and how they interpreted the occult in their life and work, the contributors in this edition return to sensation novels, ghost stories, autobiographies, séances and fashionable magazines to access the visible and invisible worlds of Victorian life. The variety of texts analysed by the authors in this collection demonstrates the many interpretations of the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the ways that women used supernatural imagery and language to draw attention to issues that bore immediate implications on their own lives. Either by catering for the fad of ghost stories or by giving public trance speeches women harnessed the metaphorical and financial forces of the supernatural. As the articles in this book demonstrate the occult was after all a female affair. This book was published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
The Woman Who Did
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Author : Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2004-06-25
The Woman Who Did written by Grant Allen and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-25 with Fiction categories.
The controversial subject matter of Grant Allen's novel, The Woman Who Did, made it a major bestseller in 1895. It tells the story of Herminia Barton, a university-educated New Woman who, because of her belief that marriage oppresses women, refuses to marry her lover even though she shares his bed and bears his child. Her ideals come into disastrous conflict with intensely patriarchal late Victorian England. Indeed, Allen intended his novel to shock readers into a serious exploration of some of the major issues in fin de siècle sexual politics, issues that he himself, in various periodical articles under the rubric of the "Woman Question," had played a leading role in opening up to public debate. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction as well as a rich selection of appendices which include excerpts from Allen's writings on women, sex, and marriage; contemporary writings on the "Sex Problem"; documents pertaining to the Marriage Debate; contemporary responses to the novel; and excerpts from two parodies of the novel.