British future fiction, 1700-1914
Subtitle: The end of the world
By: edited by I.F. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781351222501
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: English Science fiction; Forecasting; Fiction; End of the world in literature; Apocalypse in literature; Prévision; Romans, nouvelles; Fin du monde dans la littérature
Other titles: End of the world
Description: "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 the genre and examine how it changed over the 18th and 19th centuries."--Provided by publisher
Notes: Originally published 2001 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Doom of the Great City; title: chapter 2 The Salvation of Nature; title: chapter 3 The Lord of the World.