Extollager
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I could add more to this myself, but let me throw it out for others too. Can anyone inform me about Jonas Lie?
The intended audience would be college students who like fantasy and/or sf and who might be receptive to reading earlier writing than what they are used to acquiring from bookstores, etc.
A Reading List for 19th-Century World Fantasy and Science Fiction
In the United States, “science fiction” became a publisher’s marketing category around 1940, and “fantasy” was established thus by around 1970. Much great writing was published long before the adoption of these industry categories. The following lists are not intended to be exhaustive; they are selections of outstanding works that are readily available.
Note: Today, distinctions between fantasy and science fiction may usually seem obvious. This wasn’t the case in the 19th century, and so a few works are listed twice, under each category.
France
Germany
Brentano: “Rosepetal”?
Goethe: Fairy Tale (The Green Snake)?
Hoffmann: “The Sandman,” “The Mines at Falun”….
Great Britain
Coleridge: Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “Kubla Khan”
MacDonald: “The Day Boy and the Night Girl” (“Photogen and Nycteris”), “The Golden Key,” “The Light Princess,” The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, Lilith
Morris: The Well at the World’s End
Norway
Ibsen: Peer Gynt
Jonas Lie?
United States
Hawthorne: “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
France
Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Germany:
Hoffmann: “The Sandman”
Great Britain
Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wells: Short stories including “The Crystal Egg,” “The Sea-Raiders,” “The Country of the Blind,” etc.; The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Norway
United States
Hawthorne: “The Birthmark”
Poe: Arthur Gordon Pym, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,”
The intended audience would be college students who like fantasy and/or sf and who might be receptive to reading earlier writing than what they are used to acquiring from bookstores, etc.
A Reading List for 19th-Century World Fantasy and Science Fiction
In the United States, “science fiction” became a publisher’s marketing category around 1940, and “fantasy” was established thus by around 1970. Much great writing was published long before the adoption of these industry categories. The following lists are not intended to be exhaustive; they are selections of outstanding works that are readily available.
Note: Today, distinctions between fantasy and science fiction may usually seem obvious. This wasn’t the case in the 19th century, and so a few works are listed twice, under each category.
FANTASY
France
Germany
Brentano: “Rosepetal”?
Goethe: Fairy Tale (The Green Snake)?
Hoffmann: “The Sandman,” “The Mines at Falun”….
Great Britain
Coleridge: Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “Kubla Khan”
MacDonald: “The Day Boy and the Night Girl” (“Photogen and Nycteris”), “The Golden Key,” “The Light Princess,” The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, Lilith
Morris: The Well at the World’s End
Norway
Ibsen: Peer Gynt
Jonas Lie?
United States
Hawthorne: “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
SCIENCE FICTION
Verne: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Germany:
Hoffmann: “The Sandman”
Great Britain
Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wells: Short stories including “The Crystal Egg,” “The Sea-Raiders,” “The Country of the Blind,” etc.; The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Norway
United States
Hawthorne: “The Birthmark”
Poe: Arthur Gordon Pym, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,”