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Sources of Science Fiction

Future War Novels of the 1890s

George Locke, Takayuki Tatsumi (Herausgeber)

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3040 Seiten

1998
Routledge
978-0-415-19288-0 (ISBN)

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This collection traces the evolution of a literary genre: the British speculative future war novel. Taking science fiction from the 1890s, this set explores the various ways in which the science fiction tradition can be interpreted.

These novels map the evolution of a relatively new literary genre: the British speculative future war novel. They forecast invasions from the land, sea, air, and ultimately, outer space. They can be interpreted in many ways: as fin-de-siecle paranoia, as critiques of British imperialism, as xenophobic tirades, or as fear of the advances of technology. Taken together they illustrate the development of the genre that cultimated in The War of the Worlds and which afterwards overshadowed the whole of the twentieth century.

Volume 1. The War in England in 189- [1893] 318pp Rear-Admiral P. Colomb, Colonel J.F. Maurice, Captain F.N. Maude, Archibald Forbes, Charles Lowe, D. Christie Murray, F. Scudamore Volume 2. The Great War in England in 1897 [1894] 330pp William Le Queux Volume 3. The Captain of the 'Mary Rose'. A Tale of Tomorrow [1894] 324pp W. Laird Clowes Volume 4. The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror [1895] 401pp George Griffith Volume 5. The Final War [1896] 384pp Loius Tracy Volume 6. Blake of the 'Rattlesnake'; or, The Man who saved England: A Story of Torpedo Warfare [1895] 269pp Fred T. Jane Volume 7. The Yellow Danger [1898] 354pp M.P. Shiel Volume 8. The War of the Wenuses [1898] 140pp C.L. Graves and E.V. Lucas, Edison's Conquest of Mars [1898 (1947)] 159pp Garrett P. Serviss, The Struggle for Empire [1900] 213pp R.W. Cole

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.11.1998
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-19288-9 / 0415192889
ISBN-13	978-0-415-19288-0 / 9780415192880
Zustand	Neuware