
Pre-Owned Some Kind of Paradise: The Emergence of American Science Fiction (Hardcover) by Alice Clareson
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- ISBN: 9780313231674
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 264
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 264 p. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy.
- Clareson reveals the interplay between literary expressionism and intellectual history and shows how science fiction was a popular response to world events during the period 1870-1930. He emphasizes that at least before World War II, the predominant tone of American science fiction was optimistic and that one way or another--through advanced technology or a return to primitiveness--the writers were going to produce Some Kind of Paradise.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreLiterature & Fiction
- Publication dateDecember, 1985
- Pages264
- Reading levelGrade 2
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- ISBN: 9780313231674
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 264
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 264 p. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy.
- Clareson reveals the interplay between literary expressionism and intellectual history and shows how science fiction was a popular response to world events during the period 1870-1930. He emphasizes that at least before World War II, the predominant tone of American science fiction was optimistic and that one way or another--through advanced technology or a return to primitiveness--the writers were going to produce Some Kind of Paradise.
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