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, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Reading, UK.
• Authors: Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; PART I: SCIENCES OF OBSERVATION AND INTERVENTION; 2. Beyond the Telescope: From Astronomy to (Dystopian) Fiction; 3. A Sylph under the Microscope: Science and Romance; 4. Satanism and Genetics: Haldane's <span style="font-style:italic;" >Daedalus and Its Begetters; PART II: THE HUMAN ANIMAL; 5. Eugenics, Utopia, Eudemonics: Bellamy, Galton and Morris; 6. Strains of the Non-Human: <span style="font-style:italic;" >The Coming Race, <span style="font-style:italic;" >A Crystal Age, <span style="font-style:italic;" >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 WORLDS; 9. War is Peace: Conscription and Mobilisation in the Modern Utopia; 10. Towards the Singularity? Čapek's <span style="font-style:italic;" >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 : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.93356; General; Literature and science; Utopias in literature; Science fiction -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137456793; 1137456795
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