Judith Merril
Subtitle: a critical study
By: Dianne Newell and Victoria Lamont
Contributors: Lamont, Victoria
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786448364
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This work offers the first comprehensive account and analysis of Merril's body of fiction. A thorough account of Merril's 50-year career, this work is a valuable reference for students of science fiction, women's biography and autobiography, women's contributions to frontier mythology, and women's activism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The postwar fiction. Judith Merril and the myth of the frontier; title: Atomic frontier and the advent of a writer; title: The space stories; title: Alien encounters; title: Psychology and "primary communication"; title: Shifting the dimensions. Of speculative fiction; title: Merril in dialogue; title: New waves and new communities; title: The memoir; title: Epilogue: the future of Judith Merril.