Science Fiction: Toward a World Literature

By (author)George Slusser -

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In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as “this enormously ambitious posthumous volume,” renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He explores how key thinkers like Ren? Descartes, Benjamin Constant, Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser?s overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and Israel. Hayles?s foreword provides a useful summation of the book?s contents, while science fiction writer G

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George Slusser –

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9781666905373

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366

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