Origins of Futuristic Fiction |
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Author:
| Alkon, Paul K. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-3772-2 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $44.00 |
Book Description:
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Alkon examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of well-known masterpieces of the form by H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell.
Alkon examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of well-known masterpieces of the form by H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell.