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The origins of science fiction : from Mary Shelley to W.E.B. Du Bois

Title
The origins of science fiction : from Mary Shelley to W.E.B. Du Bois / edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton
Publication
  • Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965-
Description
lxii, 391 pages; 23 cm
Series Statement
Oxford World's classics
Uniform Title
Oxford world's classics.
Subject
  • Science fiction
  • Short stories
  • Nouvelles
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references
Contents
A Chronology of the Origins of Science Fiction -- The Mortal Immortal / Mary Shelley -- The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Edgar Allan Poe -- Rappaccini's Daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The Lifted Veil / George Eliot -- Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery / Grant Allen -- The Water-Devil: A Marine Tale / Frank R. Stockton -- The Crystal Egg / H. G. Wells -- 'Wireless' / Rudyard Kipling -- The Hall Bedroom / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The Country of the Blind / H. G. Wells -- The Machine Stops / E. M. Forster -- The Terror of Blue John Gap / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Red One / Jack London -- Friend Island / Gertrude Barrows Bennett -- The Comet / W. E. B. Dubois.
ISBN
  • 9780198853619
  • 0198853610
LCCN
99991591947
OCLC
  • on1246286010
  • 1246286010
  • SCSB-14299180
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries