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9780742540354

Rumors of War and Infernal Machines Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction

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    9780742540354

  • ISBN10:

    0742540359

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-04
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military ficti

Author Biography

Charles E. Gannon is associate professor of English at St. Bonaventure University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii
Introduction Assessing Rumors-of War and Infernal Machines 1(238)
1 Armageddon by Gaslight: Victorian Visions of Apocalypse
8(24)
2 Opportunistic Anticipations and Accidental Insights: William Le Queux's Exploitation of Edwardian Invasion Anxieties
32(30)
3 Promoters of the Probable, Prophets of the Possible: Technological Innovation and Edwardian Near-Future War Fiction
62(29)
4 H.G. Wells: The Far-Future War Prophet of Edwardian England
91(21)
5 Hard Numbers, Hard Cases, Hard Decisions: Politics an dFuture-War Fiction in America
112(16)
6 An Imperfect Future Tense(d): Anticipations of Atomic Annihilation in Post-War American Science Fiction
128(18)
7 Nuclear Fiction and Silo Psychosis: Narratives of Life in the Shadow of a Mushroom Cloud
146(27)
8 Radio Waves, Death Rays, and Transgressive (Sub)Texts: Future-War Fiction in the Wide Black Yonder
173(35)
9 Making Man-Machines of Mass Destruction: Future-War Authors as Seers in an Age of Cyborg Soldiers
208(31)
10 Cultural Casualties as Collateral Damage: The Fragment-ing/-ation Effects of Future-War Fantasies vs. Fictions 239(17)
Afterword On Conducting a Literary Reconnaissance in Force-and in Earnest 256(3)
Notes 259(28)
Bibliography 287(5)
Index 292

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