ABSTRACT

This set of eight volumes presents the reader with selected primary texts in the genre now generally known as future fiction. The chosen texts are designed to explore the dominant characteristics of the genre and examine how it changed over the 18th and 19th centuries.

part |126 pages

The Revolt of Man

chapter I|11 pages

In Park Lane.

chapter II|8 pages

The Earl of Chester.

chapter III|8 pages

The Chancellor.

chapter IV|7 pages

The Great Duchess.

chapter V|10 pages

In the Season.

chapter VI|14 pages

Woman's England.

chapter VII|8 pages

On the Trumpington Road.

chapter VIII|7 pages

The Bishop.

chapter IX|5 pages

The Great Conspiracy.

chapter X|10 pages

The First Spark.

chapter XI|7 pages

A Marriage Marred.

chapter XII|12 pages

In the Camp at Chester Towers.

chapter XIII|7 pages

The Night Before the Battle.

chapter XIV|12 pages

The Army of Avengers.

part |188 pages

Lesbia Newman

chapter |184 pages

Preface.

chapter I|4 pages

The Inmates of Dulham Vicarage.

chapter II|2 pages

Fidgfumblasquidiot.

chapter III|4 pages

Bill and Joe.

chapter IV|3 pages

An Afternoon at Ruddymere.

chapter V|5 pages

An Edifying Sunday.

chapter VI|7 pages

A Luncheon Out.

chapter VII|7 pages

Mrs Newman's Dream.

chapter VIII|7 pages

Mr Lockstable's Courtship.

chapter XI|2 pages

More Country Life.

chapter XII|4 pages

Seeing Lettie Off.

chapter XIII|6 pages

The Background of the Dream.

chapter XIV|4 pages

Home News, and Interviewing a Nationalist.

chapter XVI|3 pages

The Correspondence Continued.

chapter XVII|5 pages

The Same.

chapter XVIII|4 pages

The Correspondence Concluded.

chapter XIX|3 pages

Englishwomen and the Politics of the Day.

chapter XX|3 pages

From Country to Town.

chapter XXI|6 pages

Frivolous and Important.

chapter XXII|6 pages

The Screaming Farce Bill.

chapter XXIII|8 pages

Toward the Flaminian Gate.

chapter XXIV|3 pages

Gathering Clouds.

chapter XXV|3 pages

Another Victim of Juggernaut.

chapter XXVI|5 pages

Complications and Conflagration.

chapter XXVII|4 pages

Approaching the Reality.

chapter XXVIII|4 pages

'But it Shall not Come Nigh Thee.'

chapter XXIX|4 pages

The 13th of October 189 —.

chapter XXX|2 pages

The 13th of October 189-.

chapter XXXI|5 pages

The 13th of October 189 –.

chapter XXXII|4 pages

Retrospect — Marshalling the Forces.

chapter XXXIII|6 pages

The Double Battle of Queenstown.

chapter XXXIV|4 pages

Night and Reflections.

chapter XXXV|2 pages

The Severance of Ireland.

chapter XXXVI|5 pages

At Ruddymere Again.

chapter XXXVII|3 pages

Leading to the Second Part.

chapter XL|2 pages

Disestablished, but Vivified.

chapter XLII|6 pages

The Axe to the Root of the Tree.

chapter XLIV|4 pages

In Church with the Mylittists.

chapter XLV|9 pages

A Party at Home.

chapter XLVII|4 pages

The Council of London, A.D. 1900.

chapter XLVIII|3 pages

The Re-Settling of the Waters.

chapter XLIX|3 pages

Reconciliation.

chapter L|4 pages

Before Westminster Abbey.