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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 634–637.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kent A. Ono © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination . By Robert Markley. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. 456 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science...
View articletitled, Dying Planet: Mars in <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> and the Imagination; Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and the Cultures of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> in the Nineteenth Century; American <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 677–679.
Published: 01 September 2012
...David M. Higgins Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation . By Chu Seo-Young . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . 306 pp. $39.95 . The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction . By Csicsery-Ronay Istvan Jr. Middletown, CT...
View articletitled, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>-<span class="search-highlight">Fictional</span> Theory of Representation / The Seven Beauties of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction . By William H. Katerberg. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas. 2008. ix, 281 pp. $45.00. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women . By Jeffrey...
View articletitled, Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>; Scare Tactics: Supernatural <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> by American Women
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Gerry Canavan Abstract This article takes up science-fictional visions of the future against the “deep time” of the Anthropocene in order to explore the possibilities for utopia that remain in an era that only seems capable of producing necrofuturological dread. The piece surveys a wide range...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 427–429.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Gerry Canavan © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction . By John Rieder. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 183 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor...
View articletitled, Colonialism and the Emergence of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America
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for article titled, Colonialism and the Emergence of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2011
...David M. Higgins Higgins argues that the depth of science fiction's engagement with imperial themes allows the genre to function as a critical literature of empire. As a literary mode engaged with imperial dream-work, science fiction addresses the operations of imperialism more fully than any other...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. By Peter Y. Paik. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. 207 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save...
View articletitled, From Utopia to Apocalypse: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and the Politics of Catastrophe; Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Narrative . By Pfister Jude M. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2014 . x, 205 pp. Paper , $35.00 ; e-book available. Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography . By Thiess Derek J. . New York : Lexington Books . 2015 . vii, 175...
View articletitled, Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and Historiography
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... Valdemar” with Justinus Kerner’s medical case history “The Seeress of Prevorst,” this essay compares the narrative constructions of verisimilitude in science and fiction. But in exploring the viral dissemination of “Valdemar,” I also analyze how nineteenth-century print media produced content and credence...
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View articletitled, Arrested in the Moment of Dying: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>, <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Taylor Evans Abstract The steam man is a trope of early US science fiction, one inaugurated by the first dime novel Edisonade, Edward Ellis’s 1868 story The Steam Man of the Prairies . Focusing on early steam man stories as well as the historical origin of the trope—Zadoc Dederick’s 1868 invention...
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View articletitled, The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Jordan S. Carroll Through an examination of some of the science-fiction stories published in Playboy magazine from 1953 to 1973, this essay shows that futuristic narratives were integral to the magazine’s editorial sensibility, which suggested that intimate life should be governed by the cool...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Joni Adamson Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism . By Otto Eric C. . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 152 pp. Cloth , $44.95 ; CD , $14.95 . Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic...
View articletitled, Green Speculations: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and Transformative Environmentalism Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic Literatures
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
Published: 01 December 2015
...R. John Williams Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia . By Wegner Phillip E. . New York : Peter Lang . 2014 . xix , 308 pp. Paper, $55.95 ; e-book, $55.95 . The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood...
View articletitled, Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>, Globalization, and Utopia the Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood Neocybernetics and Narrative
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 630–632.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Britt M. Rusert Duke University Press 2007 Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology . By Daniel Dinello. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America . By Martin...
View articletitled, Technophobia! <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> Visions of Posthuman Technology; Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2013
... : Continuum . 2011 . iii , 178 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper , $21.95 ; e-book , $15.99 . Race in American Science Fiction . By Isiah Lavender III. Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press . 2011 . iii , 269 pp. Paper , $24.95 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews
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View articletitled, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Race in American <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 196.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction . By Gary Westfahl. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2007. ix, 273 pp. Paper, $35.00. Brief Mention
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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher...
View articletitled, Hugo Gernsback and the Century of <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...
View articletitled, Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Editing the Soul: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> in the Genome Age
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2005
... stories, popular prose, and science
fiction; Peel’s Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism is much less discursive.
The latter is a tightly organized monograph bristling with chapter titles, sub-
chapters, sub-subchapters, tables, and italicized theses that theorizes broadly
as it analyzes three complex...
View articletitled, Astrofuturism: <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space; Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 643–644.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to the authority of what she has in fact
done, however, and I recommend this book very strongly to anyone interested
in this form of writing.
Robert Merrill, University of Nevada, Reno
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. By Ronald R. Thomas. Cam-
bridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999...
View articletitled, Detective <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and the Rise of Forensic <span class="search-highlight">Science</span>
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 March 2019
... notwithstanding, the field would do to follow up on their leads. The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention . By David Letzler . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2017 . vii, 303 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $60.00 . The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism...
View articletitled, The Cruft of <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>: Mega-Novels and the <span class="search-highlight">Science</span> of Paying Attention The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
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