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British future fiction : 1700-1914
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British future fiction : 1700-1914

Author: I F Clarke
Publisher: London : Pickering & Chatto, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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This set of eight volumes presents the reader with selected primary texts in the genre now generally known as future fiction. The chosen texts are designed to explore the dominant characteristics of  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: I F Clarke
ISBN: 185196617X 9781851966172
OCLC Number: 43069345
Description: 8 v. (4128 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Volume 1 The Beginnings General Introduction; C Oman (ed.), The Reign of George VI, 1900-1925 (1763); Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (1872) Volume 2 New Worlds Introduction; W D Hay, Three Hundred Years Hence (1881); W H Hudson, A Crystal Age (1906) Volume 3 The Marvels of Mechanism Introduction; W Grove, The Wreck of a World (1889); Louis Tracy, An American Emperor (1897) Volume 4 Women's Rights: Yea and Nay Introduction; Sir Walter Besant, The Revolt of Man (1890); Henry Robert Samuel Dalton, Lesbia Newman (1889) Volume 5 Woman Triumphant Introduction; Anon, Star of the Morning (1906); A C Fox-Davies, The Sex Triumphant (1909) Volume 6 The Next Great War Introduction; Sir George Tomkyns Chesney, The Battle of Dorking (1871); Abraham Hayward, The Second Armada (1871); William Francis Butler, The Invasion of England (1882); 'Posteritas', The Siege of London (1884); James Eastwick, The New Centurion; a Tale of Automatic Warfare (1895); Captain S Eardley-Wilmot, The Next Naval War (1894) Volume 7 Disasters-to-Come Introduction; Robert Wililiam Cole, The Death Trap (1907); Lloyd Williams, The Great Raid (1909); Anon., Under the Red Ensign (1912) Volume 8 The End of the World Introduction; William Delisle Hay, The Doom of the Great City (1880); John Davidson, The Salvation of Nature (1891); Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World (1907)
Responsibility: edited by I.F. Clarke.
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'I F Clarke ... has placed all Victorianists in his debt.' Australasian Victorian Studies Journal 'It's hard to imagine any advanced student or scholar working in this area who wouldn't learn many Read more...

 
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