British Future Fiction, 1700-1914, Volume 4

ISBN-13: 9781138750845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 326 str.

I. F. Clarke

Opis

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.

Spis treści

The Revolt of Man; I: In Park Lane.; II: The Earl of Chester.; III: The Chancellor.; IV: The Great Duchess.; V: In the Season.; VI: Woman's England.; VII: On the Trumpington Road.; VIII: The Bishop.; IX: The Great Conspiracy.; X: The First Spark.; XI: A Marriage Marred.; XII: In the Camp at Chester Towers.; XIII: The Night Before the Battle.; XIV: The Army of Avengers.; Lesbia Newman; Preface.; I: The Inmates of Dulham Vicarage.; II: Fidgfumblasquidiot.; III: Bill and Joe.; IV: An Afternoon at Ruddymere.; V: An Edifying Sunday.; VI: A Luncheon Out.; VII: Mrs Newman's Dream.; VIII: Mr Lockstable's Courtship.; IX: Mr Bristley Mounts his Hobby, and Brings the Dream Upon Lesbia.; X: Reformed Horseback in a Run with the Frogmore.; XI: More Country Life.; XII: Seeing Lettie Off.; XIII: The Background of the Dream.; XIV: Home News, and Interviewing a Nationalist.; XV: Lesbia’s Correspondence, and the Penumbra of the Dream Upon Letitia.; XVI: The Correspondence Continued.; XVII: The Same.; XVIII: The Correspondence Concluded.; XIX: Englishwomen and the Politics of the Day.; XX: From Country to Town.; XXI: Frivolous and Important.; XXII: The Screaming Farce Bill.; XXIII: Toward the Flaminian Gate.; XXIV: Gathering Clouds.; XXV: Another Victim of Juggernaut.; XXVI: Complications and Conflagration.; XXVII: Approaching the Reality.; XXVIII: 'But it Shall not Come Nigh Thee.'; XXIX: The 13th of October 189 —.; XXX: The 13th of October 189-.; XXXI: The 13th of October 189 –.; XXXII: Retrospect — Marshalling the Forces.; XXXIII: The Double Battle of Queenstown.; XXXIV: Night and Reflections.; XXXV: The Severance of Ireland.; XXXVI: At Ruddymere Again.; XXXVII: Leading to the Second Part.; XXXVIII: The Papacy in Trouble – The Pisa–Vitri Persecution.; XXXIX: Some Minor Effects of the British Revolution of 189-.- Ousebridge.; XL: Disestablished, but Vivified.; XLI: Clenching the Nail, and the Corona op the Dream Upon the Cardinal.; XLII: The Axe to the Root of the Tree.; XLIII: Mr Mountjoy Gives our Friends a Bit of his Mind.; XLIV: In Church with the Mylittists.; XLV: A Party at Home.; XLVI: The Same – Mr Bristley on Old and New Style.; XLVII: The Council of London, A.D. 1900.; XLVIII: The Re-Settling of the Waters.; XLIX: Reconciliation.; L: Before Westminster Abbey.

O autorze

I F Clarke