'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America
By Anthem Press
()
About this ebook
'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America gathers together four moon voyage stories published by Americans prior to the Civil War. Included in this scholarly critical edition are the works of University of Virginia professor George Tucker, literary magazine author and editor Edgar Allan Poe, newspaper editor Richard Adams Locke, and scientist and medical educator John Leonard Riddell. Along with a general introduction to the collection as a whole, each story has its own introductory material along with explanatory footnotes and appendixes to identify the key points of its textual and cultural history.
The four moon tales found in 'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America are remarkable for the ways in which they capture a wide diversity of both literary agendas and printed material. These stories originally appeared in genres ranging from the traditional novel and the literary periodical short story to a series of newspaper articles and a scientific pamphlet. The social critiques of Tucker and Poe, the manipulative power of startling scientific revelations demonstrated in Locke’s work and the more measured scientific discussions found in Riddell all bear witness to the power of print and science in the antebellum period.
Related to 'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America
Related ebooks
'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOverwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConstructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRe-Dressing America's Frontier Past Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Before Einstein: The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGodly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom History to Theory Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories: Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArthurian Triptych: Mythic Materials in Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and T. S. Eliot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950: The Birth, Near Death, and Resurrection of a Scientific Research Institution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJoyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Kinship Wars: An Essay on the Prehistory of Social Anthropology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStorming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romans Were Known For Their Aquaducks: And Other Gems of Wit and Wisdom in Western Civilization Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKnowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Science Fiction For You
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annihilation: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silo Series Collection: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift: Book Two of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camp Zero: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stories of Ray Bradbury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wool: Book One of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Institute: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Am Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frankenstein: Original 1818 Uncensored Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cryptonomicon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Who Have Never Known Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England: Secret Projects, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dust: Book Three of the Silo Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perelandra: (Space Trilogy, Book Two) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blindsight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Time and Again Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Light From Uncommon Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for 'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America
0 ratings0 reviews