Title: Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Title Record # 850454
Author: John Rieder
Date: 2008-05-30
Type: NONFICTION
Language: English
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Author: John Rieder
Date: 2008-05-30
Type: NONFICTION
Language: English
Synopsis: Publisher's description: "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.
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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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction | 2008-05-30 | John Rieder | Wesleyan University Press (Early Classics of Science Fiction) | 978-0-8195-6873-1 | $70.00?$: US dollar |
200 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | Howard V. Brown | |
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction | 2008-05-30 | John Rieder | Wesleyan University Press (Early Classics of Science Fiction) | 978-0-8195-6874-8 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
200 | 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. |
non-fic | Howard V. Brown | |
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction | 2012-10-15 | John Rieder | Wesleyan University Press | 978-0-8195-7380-3 | $19.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
non-fic |
Reviews
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (2009) in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2009
- Review by Carl Freedman (2010) in Extrapolation, Spring 2010
- Review by Paul Kincaid (2010) in Foundation, #108 Spring 2010