• Publication: Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its PrecursorsPublication Record # 344257
• Author: David Seed
• Date: 1995-05-00
• ISBN: 0-8156-2640-1 [978-0-8156-2640-4]
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Pub. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
• Pub. Series #: 2
• Price:
  $17.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: xvi+225
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: Data from Locus1.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 31434708 312264677 468462469 231645512 641177767

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Verne's Amazing Journeys • (1987) • essay by M. Hammerton
• "Able Mechanick": The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins and the Eighteenth-Century Fantastic Voyage • (1995) • essay by Paul Baines
• Science Fiction by Gaslight: An Introduction of English-Language Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century • (1995) • essay by Edward James
• Frankenstein and the Origins of Science Fiction • (1995) • essay by Brian Stableford
• From Mary Shelley to The War of the Worlds: The Thames Valley Catastrophe • (1995) • essay by Patrick Parrinder
• Breaking the Bounds: The Rhetoric of Limits in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, His Contemporaries and Adaptors • (1995) • essay by David Seed
• Imagining the Future: Predictive Fiction in the Nineteenth Century • (1995) • essay by Brian Nellist
• Imagination and Inversion in Nineteenth-Century Utopian Writing • (1995) • essay by Simon Denith
• Prediction, Programme and Fantasy in Jack London's "The Iron Heel" • (1995) • essay by Tony Barley
• Alien Dreams: Kipling • (1995) • essay by Stephen R. L. Clark
• Lesbians and Virgins: The New Motherhood in Herland • (1995) • essay by Val Gough