Science Fiction - Toward a World Literature

In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fiction’s history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.

List of contents

Foreword: A Novel Method for Constructing Science Fiction's Origins
by N. Katherine Hayles

Notes on the Text
by Gary Westfahl

Introduction: Science Fiction:
Toward a World Literature

Chapter One
The Paradigms of Science Fiction

Chapter Two
Fraternal Frontiers: Defining a Space for Literature

Chapter Three
Future Liberty: Nineteenth Century Horizons

Chapter Four
Extending the Mind Circle: DeQuincey's English Mail Coach

Chapter Five
Genre at the Crossroads: Cultural Readings of Maupassant's "Le Horla"

Chapter Six
Bernal's Masterplot and the Transhuman Promise

Chapter Seven
Each Man Is an Island: The Legacy of Emerson's Golden Age

Conclusion
The Fortunes of Science Fiction

Afterword: Knowing George
by Gregory Benford

A Brief Bibliography of the Works of George Slusser

About the author

George Slusser was professor of comparative literature and curator of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, at the University of California, Riverside. Gary Westfahl is professor emeritus at the University of La Verne.

Summary

In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fiction’s history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.

Product details

• Authors: George Slusser, Slusser George
• Assisted by: Gary Westfahl (Editor), Westfahl Gary (Editor), Hayles N. Katherine (Foreword), Benford Gregory (Afterword), Gregory Benford (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2023
• EAN: 9781666905373
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-537-3
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers