The Origins of Science Fiction
Dr Michael Newton
14 September 2023
ISBN: 9780198891949
480 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.
Description
This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction.
- A delightful anthology of early science fiction from the close of the Romantic period to the early twentieth century, showing the extraordinary imaginative diversity of the genre
- Includes historically informed notes and biographies of the authors, a chronology of Victorian fairy tales, and an appendix in which some of the included authors discuss the nature of fairy tale and its importance
- Uses copy-text of the first published version in Britain or America of the stories in book form, or of first publication in a magazine or journal
About the Author(s)
Dr Michael Newton, Leiden University, Lecturer
Michael Newton is the author of avage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (2002) and Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012). On the subject of cinema, he has written Show People: A History of the Film Star (2019) and books on Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's Baby (2020) for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son and Victorian Fairy Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories for
Penguin Classics, and co-edited the anthology, Literature and Science, 1660-1834: Science as Polite Culture (2002). He teaches literature and film at Leiden University.
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