Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized m

This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions -utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables- as responses

An interdisciplinary study that explores the impact of evolutionary theory on Victorian children's literature.

As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contemporary Pakistan

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger project by Elmeli