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Scotland as science fiction / [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher.

Title
Scotland as science fiction / [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher.
Publication
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.

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Additional Authors
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline.
Description
vii, 197 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Apercus: histories texts cultures
Uniform Title
Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subject
  • English literature > History and criticism
  • Science fiction, Scottish > History and criticism
  • Literature and society > Scotland > History
  • National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
  • Literature and history > Scotland
  • Scotland > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig -- The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure -- Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan -- Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison -- Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller -- The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi -- Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps -- Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett -- Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach -- Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman.
ISBN
  • 9781611483741 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1611483743 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781611483758 (electronic)
  • 1611483751 (electronic)
LCCN
^^2011031545
OCLC
742512340
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library