The Cambridge History of Science Fiction

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Edited by Gerry Canavan, Marquette University, Wisconsin, Eric Carl Link, Purdue University, Indiana

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2018
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781316694374
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316694374

Subjects:: Literature, English Literature: General Interest, European and World Literature: General Interest
Collection:: Cambridge Histories - Literature

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The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.

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The Cambridge History of Science Fiction
pp i-ii

The Cambridge History of Science Fiction - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-xi

Illustrations
pp xii-xii

Contributors
pp xiii-xx

Acknowledgments
pp xxi-xxi

Chronology
pp xxii-xxxviii

On Not Defining Science Fiction: An Introduction
pp 1-10

Part I - Before the New Wave
pp 11-320

1 - Science Fiction before Science Fiction: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern SF
pp 13-34

2 - Interrelations: Science Fiction and the Gothic
pp 35-49

3 - European Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
pp 50-68

4 - Inventing New Worlds: The Age of Manifestos and Utopias
pp 69-85

5 - War Machines and Child Geniuses: American Edisonades
pp 86-100

6 - Afrofuturism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
pp 101-119

7 - Science Fiction, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde
pp 120-134

8 - The Gernsback Years: Science Fiction and the Pulps in the 1920s and 1930s
pp 135-148

9 - Astounding Stories: John W. Campbell and the Golden Age, 1938–1950
pp 149-165

10 - Science Fiction in Continental Europe before the Second World War
pp 166-185

11 - Rise of the Supermen: Science Fiction during the Second World War
pp 186-200

12 - Utopia … : Science Fiction in the 1950s and 1960s
pp 201-217

13 - … or Bust: Science Fiction and the Bomb, 1945–1960
pp 218-231

14 - Women in the Golden Age of Science Fiction
pp 232-246

15 - Better Living through Chemistry: Science Fiction and Consumerism in the Cold War
pp 247-264

16 - “The Golden Age of Science Fiction Is Twelve”: Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction into the 1980s
pp 265-278

17 - Spectacular Horizons: The Birth of Science Fiction Film, Television, and Radio, 1900–1959
pp 279-294

18 - Fandom and Fan Culture in the Golden Age and Beyond
pp 295-307

19 - Science Fiction and Its Critics
pp 308-320

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