Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (British Library Tales of the Weird): Classic Stories of Mad Science - Softcover

Reyes, Xavier Aldana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712352848 ISBN 13: 9780712352840

Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2019

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Reseña del editor:

From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley and H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains - the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far. These savants take many forms: there are malcontents who strive to create poisonous humans; technologists obsessed with genetic splicing; mesmerists interested in the way consciousness operates after death and inventors who believe in a hidden reality. United by an unhealthy obsession with wanting to reach beyond their circumstances, these mad scientists are marked by their magical capacity to alter the present, a gift that always comes at a price. . .

Biografía del autor:

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He is the editor of Horror: A Literary History (2016), The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (2018) and The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (2019), all published by the British Library.

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• Verlag: British Library Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0712352848
• ISBN 13: 9780712352840
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272