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Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age

Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anastasia KlimchynskayaSeries:Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies #88Publish date:2/27/2026Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781836244905ISBN-10:1836244908UPC:9781836244905Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC6CBXPK7G

The long nineteenth century was marked by a combination of political upheaval, technological transformation, and revolutionary scientific discovery that birthed a contradictory set of ideas about humanity's place in the world and the scope of its power. Science Fiction and the Modern World reads the emergence of science fiction during this turbulent period as an expression of the ensuing recalibration of humanity's relationship to the natural world. Attending to a variety of authors across linguistic and national boundaries, including Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Albert Robida, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells, as well as other primary sources, this book demonstrates how the nascent genre of science fiction captured a far-reaching but contradictory conceptual shift: a newfound sense of seemingly unprecedented human mastery over the natural world coupled with a set of discomfiting discoveries that decentred the human within the natural order. Marked by a persistent tension between power and insignificance, such fictions propagated assumptions about progress, knowledge, order, and empire that define our thinking to this day.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781836244905ISBN-10:1836244908UPC:9781836244905Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC6CBXPK7G
Klimchynskaya, Anastasia: - Anastasia Klimchynskaya is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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