Science Fiction
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-0537-3 (ISBN)
In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He explores how key thinkers like René Descartes, Benjamin Constant, Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser’s overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and Israel. Hayles’s foreword provides a useful summation of the book’s contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford contributes an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life and thoughts of his longtime friend. The book was edited by Slusser’s former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in his own right.
George Slusser was professor of comparative literature and curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, at the University of California, Riverside. Gary Westfahl is professor emeritus at the University of La Verne.
Foreword: A Novel Method for Constructing Science Fiction’s Origins
by N. Katherine Hayles
Notes on the Text
by Gary Westfahl
Introduction: Science Fiction:
Toward a World Literature
Chapter One
The Paradigms of Science Fiction
Chapter Two
Fraternal Frontiers: Defining a Space for Literature
Chapter Three
Future Liberty: Nineteenth Century Horizons
Chapter Four
Extending the Mind Circle: DeQuincey’s English Mail Coach
Chapter Five
Genre at the Crossroads: Cultural Readings of Maupassant’s “Le Horla”
Chapter Six
Bernal’s Masterplot and the Transhuman Promise
Chapter Seven
Each Man Is an Island: The Legacy of Emerson’s Golden Age
Conclusion
The Fortunes of Science Fiction
Afterword: Knowing George
by Gregory Benford
A Brief Bibliography of the Works of George Slusser
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Nachwort | Gregory Benford |
| Vorwort | N. Katherine Hayles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 572 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-0537-2 / 1666905372 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-0537-3 / 9781666905373 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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