Utopian literature and science : from the scientific revolution to Brave new world and beyond /: from the scientific revolution to Brave new world and beyond. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Patrick Parrinder.
• Authors: Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
• Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgements 1. Introduction PART I: SCIENCES OF OBSERVATION AND INTERVENTION2. Beyond the Telescope: From Astronomy to (Dystopian) Fiction 3. A Sylph under the Microscope: Science and Romance 4. Satanism and Genetics: Haldane's Daedalus and Its Begetters PART II: THE HUMAN ANIMAL5. Eugenics, Utopia, Eudemonics: Bellamy, Galton and Morris 6. Strains of the Non-Human: The Coming Race, A Crystal Age, Erewhon 7. Gorilla Warfare: Darwin, Freud, and the Stone Age Romance 8. From Human to Animal: Wells and Kafka PART III: MODERN UTOPIAS AND POST-HUMAN WORLDS9. War is Peace: Conscription and Mobilisation in the Modern Utopia 10. Towards the Singularity? ?apek's R.U.R. and its Times 11. Olaf Stapledon and the Shape of Things to Come 12. The Expulsion of the Poets Notes Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.93356; Literature and science; Utopias in literature; Science fiction -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137456786
• Related ISBNs: 9781137456779
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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