Scotland as science fiction / [edited by] Caroline McCracken-Flesher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCracken-Flesher, Caroline.

Series:

Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Science fiction, Scottish--History and criticism.

Science fiction, Scottish.

Literature and society--Scotland--History.

Literature and society.

National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.

Literature and history--Scotland.

Literature and history.

Scotland--In literature.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scots like Iain N. Banks and Ken MacLeod lead in a futuristic tradition, for from MacDonald, Barrie, and Stevenson onwards, Scots have been speculating in ways derived from their unique circumstances: lacking political power, they imagine future spaces and different places-with a twist. Nineteenth-century thermodynamics (theorized in Scotland), Celtic Otherworlds, and a Scotland always on the ""other side"" of history open unusual futures for Mitchison, Spark, Lindsay, Mitchell, MadDiarmid, Morgan, Crumey, Fitt, and Gray.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Scotland's Fantastic Physics: Energy Transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark; The Other Otherworld: Didactic Fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell; Allegory and Cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus; Speculative Nationality: "Stands Scotland Where it Did?" in the Culture of Iain M. Banks; Between Enlightenment and the End of History: Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light; The Cosmic (Cosmo)Polis in Naomi Mitchison's Science Fiction Novels

Nonviolence, Gender, and Ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The Incomer and A Sparrow's FlightPast and Future Language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks; Scottish Poetry as Science Fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's "A Home in Space"; Brave New Scotland: Science Fiction without Stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey; Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray; Bibliography; Index; About the Editor and Contributors

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-35650-9

1-283-30269-1

9786613302694

1-61148-375-1

OCLC:

759807486