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This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. Taking Frankenstein as its formative work, it assembles stories and excerpts from narratives exploring the complex impact of new technologies like the telegraph and later the cinema, or new scientific practices like mesmerism (hypnotism) and microscopy. The selected authors range from those famous within the realist tradition like George Eliot and Mark Twain to scientists like the physician Silas Weir Mitchell and the inventor Thomas Edison. They repeatedly destabilize their narratives so that some come to resemble scientific records and frequently leave their endings unresolved, encouraging the reader to speculate about their subjects, which include extensions to the senses, new inventions, and challenges to individual autonomy. Many focus on experiments but might combine scientific enquiry with the supernatural, producing hybrid narratives as a result which are difficult to classify.
Contents
VOLUME II 1859-1900, Introduction, 22. 'The Palaeoscopic Camera', 23. 'The Child of the Phalanstery', 24. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 25. 'The Great Keinplatz Experiment', 26. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 27. Blood: A Tragic Tale, 28. 'With the Eyes Shut', 29. Master of His Fate, 30. 'Dr. Materialismus', 31. The Crack of Doom, 32. 'A Wife Manufactured to Order', 33. The Professor's Experiment, 34. 'Stella', 35. The Island of Doctor Moreau, 36. 'Roentgen's Curse', 37. 'In the Deep of Time', 38. 'The Star-Shaped Marks', 39. 'From the London Times of 1904', 40. 'Moxon's Master', 41. 'My Translatophone', Bibliography, Appendix: 'Science-Fiction', Index
