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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Sciences of Observation and Intervention
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Modern Utopias and Post-Human Worlds
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This book presents an always absorbing clutch of essays, full of illumination and interesting sidelights on the utopian tradition, from which every reader will learn something new.” (Roger Luckhurst, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (3), 2017)
“From Martians and moon-men to utopian inhabitants of a variety of species, Patrick Parrinder’s monograph is rich in the early history of speculative writing. The book is particularly notable for showing the centrality of science fictional utopian speculation to the mainstream of Western imagination from Kepler, Bruno and Galileo through to the mid-twentieth century. … In reframing the historical relationship between utopian thinking and science, Parrinder also offers important challenges to the scholarly community of utopian studies.” (Adam Stock, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67 (281), September, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Patrick Parrinder is a leading authority on H.G Wells and his book Shadows of the Future won the 1996 University of California Eaton Award. He is author of Nation and Novel (2006) and General Editor of the ongoing 12-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English. A Fellow of the English Association, he is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Reading.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Utopian Literature and Science
Book Subtitle: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond
Authors: Patrick Parrinder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456786
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45677-9Published: 10 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45678-6Published: 11 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 222
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction