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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"science fiction studies"”.
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… but related categories recently theorized by science fiction studies and related to human evolution: transhuman and posthuman. I suggest that a reading of the novel that prioritizes the pervasive influence of evolutionary theory on Victorian literature encourages a reading of vampires as a …
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From erewhon to nowhere: the impact of science on late-Victorian science fiction
… as follows: • To investigate how late Victorian science fiction texts emerged in a period of dynamic epistemological change • To critique how representations of science were appropriated and naturalised in late Victorian science fiction texts. • To undertake a intertextual reading of late …
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… futures unintentionally imagined in speculative fiction can inspire new systems of surviving the climate crisis. While environmental literature warned of this crisis, climate change has outpaced warning. Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterates that the scale of …