Future Perfect
Subtitle: American science fiction of the nineteenth century
By: [by] H. Bruce Franklin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 402
Copyright date: 1966
Subjects: Science fiction, American; American fiction -- 19th century
Description: Work of serious scholarship that contains both fiction and criticism.
Table of contents: title: Hawthorne and Poe: Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne and science fiction ; The birthmark ; The artist of the beautiful ; Rappaccini's daughter --; title: Poe. Edgar Allan Poe and science fiction ; A tale of the Ragged Mountains ; The facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ; Mellonta Tauta --; title: Explorations: Automata. Herman Melville and science fiction ; The bell-tower ; Man as machine ; Dr. Materialismus --; title: Marvelous inventions. The atoms of Chladni --; title: Medicine men. Was he dead? --; title: Into the psyche. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and his dreamer ; The monarch of dreams ; Ambrose Bierce and science fiction ; A psychological shipwreck --; title: Edward Bellamy and science fiction ; To whom this may come --; title: Space travel. The blindman's world ; Fitz-James O'Brien and science fiction ; The diamond lens ; Dimensional speculation as science fiction ; Four-dimensional space ; Mysterious disappearances ; From "Four-dimensional space" --; title: Time travel. Beyond the past ; Christmas 200,000 B.C. ; Mark Twain and science fiction ; From the "London Times" of 1904 ; Perfect future ; In the year ten thousand ; The present perfect.