The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction -

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction

Volume One

Bill Gillard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
388 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-70151-6 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the 20th-century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.
The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the twentieth century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike. With a robust variety of works, including H. G. Wells, Clare Winger Harris, H. P. Lovecraft, Leslie F. Stone, and Arthur Conan Doyle, The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction offers vital new perspectives and critical introductions all the way back to humanity’s earliest surviving literary texts.

Bill Gillard, PhD, MFA, is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he teaches climate fiction and creative writing. His specialty is speculative fiction from 1880–1940, and he is coauthor of Speculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century. His poetry and fiction have been published widely, and his current research is on the Wisconsin author, Robert Bloch.

Introduction

1. Noah and the Flood (1450 B.C.) Genesis 6–9 “Darkness” (1816) by Lord Byron

2. “Darkness” (1816) by Lord Byron

3. “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

4. “The End of the World” (1872) by Eugène Mouton

5. The Doom of the Great City (1880) by William Delisle Hay

6. “Dialogue Between a Goblin and a Gnome” (1882) by Giacomo Leopardi

7. After London (excerpt) (1885) by Richard Jefferies

8. The Purchase of the North Pole (excerpt) (1889) by Jules Verne

9. “The Star” (1897) by H. G. Wells

10. “A Corner in Lightning” (1898) by George Griffith

11. “Within an Ace of the End of the World” (1900) by Robert Barr

12. “The Four White Days” (1903) by Fred M. White

13. “The Fire” (1904) by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

14. Underground Man (excerpt) (1905) by Gabriel de Tarde

15. The Evacuation of England (excerpt) (1908) by L. P. Gratacap

16. The Last Generation: A Story of the Future (1908) by James Elroy Flecker

17. The Poison Belt (1913) (excerpt) by Arthur Conan Doyle

18. Metropolis (excerpt) (1925) by Thea von Harbou

19. “The Colour out of Space” (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft

20. “The Menace of Mars” (1928) by Clare Winger Harris

21. “When the Sun Went Out” (1929) by Leslie F. Stone

22. “This Mechanical Age” (1931) by Julia Boynton Green

23. “Planetoid of Doom” (1932) by Morrison Colladay

24. “The Man Who Awoke: Part 1” (1933) by Laurence Manning

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Literature Anthologies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 900 g
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-032-70151-X / 103270151X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-70151-6 / 9781032701516
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