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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0876209
EAN: 9780819568748
ISBN: 0819568740
Label: Wesleyan
Manufacturer: Wesleyan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: May 30, 2008
Publisher: Wesleyan
Studio: Wesleyan
Features:- ISBN13: 9780819568748
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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This is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction's relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism's impact on late Victorian Gothic and adventure fiction and on Anglo-American popular and literary culture in general. John Rieder argues that colonial history and ideology are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production. He proposes that the profound ambivalence that pervades colonial accounts of the exotic "other" establishes the basic texture of much science fiction, in particular its vacillation between fantasies of discovery and visions of disaster. Combining original scholarship and theoretical sophistication with a clearly written presentation suitable for students as well as professional scholars, this study offers new and innovative readings of both acknowledged classics and rediscovered gems.
Includes discussion of works by Edwin A. Abbott, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, George Tomkyns Chesney, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edmond Hamilton, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Henry Kuttner, Alun Llewellyn, Jack London, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, William Morris, Garrett P. Serviss, Mary Shelley, Olaf Stapledon, and H. G. Wells.
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of early SF that will be of interest both for those interested in SF and those interested in literary theory. Whether discussing Wells, Haggard, or a more obscure author, Rieder's lively critiques are bound to draw readers to these early and exciting SF texts. In addition to its cogent theoretical insight, Rieder's adventurous and enthusiastic readings will likely inspire you to read several of the novels discussed.
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Cyrano de Bergerac's mid-17th century satire The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun is greatly admired by science fiction scholars because it "suggests the disturbance of ethnocentricism, the achievement of a perspective from which one's own culture is only one of a number of possible cultures...[by] how it mocks, parodies, criticizes, and denaturalizes the cultural norms of de Bergerac's] French contemporaries." Whereas the satire displaced French culture as the norm ... Read More
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