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Science, fables and chimeras
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ISBN: 1443854441 9781443854443 1443848107 9781443848107 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne

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The history of science provides numerous examples of the way in which imagination, religion and mythology have sometimes helped and sometimes hindered scientific progress. While established ideas and beliefs clearly held back the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin, the intuitive knowledge found in mythology, art and religion has often proved useful in indicating new ways in which to explore or represent new knowledge of the world. Stories, fables and images have contributed to draw...

Storm warnings : science fiction confronts the future
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ISBN: 0585186510 9780585186511 0809313766 9780809313761 Year: 1987 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Southern Illinois University Press


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Rhetorics of fantasy
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ISBN: 0819568678 9780819568670 9780819568687 0819568686 0819573914 9780819573919 Year: 2008 Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press,

No place else : explorations in utopian and dystopian fiction
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ISBN: 0585186413 9780585186412 0809311135 9780809311132 Year: 1983 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,


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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited
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ISBN: 9783031251719 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.


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'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies
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ISBN: 1137445408 9781137445407 1137445416 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike. .

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