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Re: Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel?

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Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
> In article <6dc0628f-463e-40a8-9434-e2044a127b7d@googlegroups.com>,
> <lenona321@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Some articles. Only trouble is, I'm not sure if the publication date was
>>on January 1st or March 11th of 1818. (I'm in a rush.)
>
> Hm.  I looked at the Subject line and thought, "1817, a year
> after eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death?  Frankenstein?
>
> It's always a relief when I discover my brain still works.
>

    The University of Cambridge reminds me of MIT. A militaristic vibe
seems present at both places. Whig historiography's scientific
progression to a better place resonates with the vibe.
    _The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction_ (James, Mendlesohn)
says that "the Gothic trappings of _Frankenstein_ place it firmly place
it firmly within the tradition of anti-science fiction." Here's how _The
Companion_ defines 'anti-science fiction':

        The imaginary voyage was also the usual narrative form
    of scathing satirical fantasies, and scientists became
    satirical targets in Margaret Cavendish's _The Blazing World_
    (1666) and the third book of Jonathan Swift's _Gulliver's Tavels_
    (1726). Such works founded a tradition of 'anti-science fiction',
    whose reliance on similar motifs and narrative strategies has
    always resulted in its subsumption within the genre whose
    ambitions it opposes. Given the importance of scepticism and
    theoretical dissent to the advancement of science and the
    near-oxymoronic quality of the 'science fiction' label, this
    confusion is not entirely inappropriate.

    _Frankenstein_'s science does not lead to a happy outcome. And its
unhappy ending makes the story anti-science fiction from the Whig
historiography perspective. But how the heck do Gothic trappings fit
into the scheme of things?

Thank you,

--
Don

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Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel? lenona321@yahoo.com - 2017-12-05 12:02 -0800
  Re: Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-05 20:35 +0000
    Re: Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel? D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2017-12-06 01:51 +0000
      Re: Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-12-06 13:48 +0000
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        Re: Upcoming 200th anniversary of...guess which novel? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2017-12-07 01:06 -0800
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