Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its Precursors

by David Seed

Book Overview

This volume of essays examines early, primarily nineteenth-century, examples of science. fiction. The essays focus particularly on how this fiction engages with such contemporary issues as exploration, the development of science and social planning.

Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815626401
• ISBN13: 9780815626404
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"