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1 online resource (vii, 197 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Scotland's fantastic physics: energy transformation in MacDonald, Stevenson, Barrie, and Spark / Cairns Craig -- The other otherworld: didactic fantasy from MacDonald and Lindsay to J. Leslie Mitchell / J. Derrick McClure -- Allegory and cruelty: Gray's Lanark and Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus / Ian Duncan -- Speculative nationality: 'Stands Scotland where it did?' in the Culture of Iain M. Banks / John Garrison -- Between enlightenment and the end of history: Ken MacLeod's Engines of light / Gavin Miller -- The cosmic (cosmo)polis in Naomi Mitchison's science fiction novels / Carla Sassi -- Non-violence, gender, and ecology: Margaret Elphinstone's The incomer and A sparrow's flight / Alison Phipps -- Past and future language: Matthew Fitt and Iain M. Banks / John Corbett -- Scottish poetry as science fiction: Geddes, MacDiarmid, and Morgan's 'A home in space' / Alan Riach -- Brave new Scotland: science fiction without stereotypes in Fitt and Crumey / Lisa Harrison -- Alba Newton and Alasdair Gray / Matthew Wickman. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Scottish authors. |
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Science fiction, Scottish -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, Scottish. |
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Literature and society -- Scotland -- History.
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Literature and society. |
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Scotland. |
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History. |
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National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
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National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. |
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Literature and history -- Scotland.
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Literature and history. |
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Scotland -- In literature.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Added Author |
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Scotland as science fiction. Lanham, MD : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012 (DLC) 2011031545 |
ISBN |
9781611483758 (electronic book) |
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1611483751 (electronic book) |
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9781611483741 |
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