Science fiction / Roger Luckhurst.
"In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, usi...
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Cambridge ; Malden, MA :
Polity,
2005.
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| Series: | Cultural history of literature.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conditions of emergence
- 2. Britain : the scientific romance and the evolutionary paradigm
- 3. America : pulp fictions and the engineer paradigm
- 4. 1945 : the technocultural conjuncture
- 5. From atomjocks to cultural critique : American SF, 1939-1959
- 6. 'All that age, horribly dislocated' : England after 1945
- 7. The 1960s
- 8. The 1970s
- 9. The 1980s
- 10. The 1990s.