The Coming Race (Broadview Editions) - Tapa blanda

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

 
9781551118369: The Coming Race (Broadview Editions)
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ISBN 10: 155111836X ISBN 13: 9781551118369
Editorial: Broadview Press Ltd, 2008

Sinopsis

The Coming Race is the crowning achievement of the genre of hollow earth fiction, in which a hero makes a perilous journey underground and discovers a superior race. The customs and political systems of these “aliens from inner space” are researched and contrasted with the deficient practices of old-fashioned, muddling, imperfect humanity. The subterranean race in this novel, the Vril-ya, are seemingly angelic creatures whose amazing powers come from their harnessing of a force called Vril. Bulwer’s novel is unequaled for the depth of its intellectual explorations―inquiries into an astonishing range of social, political, scientific, religious, linguistic, and sexual issues that are enabled by the hollow earth plot.

The novel is accompanied and illuminated in this edition by a broad range of historical materials on evolution, electromagnetism, gender roles, and nineteenth-century science fiction.

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Acerca del autor

Peter W. Sinnema is Professor of English at the University of Alberta.

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The Coming Race is the crowning achievement of the genre of hollow earth fiction, in which a hero makes a perilous journey underground and discovers a superior race. The customs and political systems of these "aliens from inner space" are researched and contrasted with the deficient practices of old-fashioned, muddling, imperfect humanity. The subterranean race in this novel, the Vril-ya, are seemingly angelic creatures whose amazing powers come from their harnessing of a force called Vril. Bulwer's novel is unequaled for the depth of its intellectual explorations--inquiries into an astonishing range of social, political, scientific, religious, linguistic, and sexual issues that are enabled by the hollow earth plot.

The novel is accompanied and illuminated in this edition by a broad range of historical materials on evolution, electromagnetism, gender roles, and nineteenth-century science fiction.

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Editorial
Broadview Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
155111836X
ISBN 13 
9781551118369
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
240
Editor
Simmema Peter
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781907523236: The Coming Race: the classic science fiction tale of a master race (Aziloth Books)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1907523235 ISBN 13:  9781907523236
Editorial: Aziloth Books, 2010
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