Scotland as science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McCracken-Flesher, Caroline
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
Series:	Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subjects:	English literature > Scottish authors > History and criticism. Science fiction, Scottish > History and criticism. Literature and society > Scotland > History. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Literature and history > Scotland. Scotland > In literature.

Table of 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.