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The History of Science Fiction
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Title
The History of Science Fiction [electronic resource] / by Adam Roberts.
ISBN
9781137569578
Edition
2nd ed. 2016.
Publication
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Physical Description
XXII, 524 p. 18 illus : online resource.
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Summary
This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 01, 2016
Series
Palgrave Histories of Literature
Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition (2006)
1. Definitions
2. SF and the Ancient Novel
3. From Medieval Romance to Sixteenth-Century Utopia
4. 17th-Century SF
5. 18th-Century SF. Big, Little
6. Early 19th Century SF
7. SF 1850-1900: Mobility and Mobilisation
8. Verne and Wells
9. The Early Twentieth Century, 1: High Modernist SF
10. The Early Twentieth Century, 2: The Pulps
11. Golden Age SF: 1940-1960
12. The Impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s
13. SF Screen Media, 1960-2000: Hollywood Cinema and TV
14. Prose SF of the 1980s and 1990s
15. Late 20th Century SF: Multimedia, Visual SF and Others
16. 21st Century Science Fiction
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