Nicholas Ruddick
Biographic Data
| ID | 996378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Ruddick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruddick |
| SIGNATURE | RUDDICK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Full of Whoosh
167 BOOKS IN REVIEW Full of Whoosh. Adam Roberts. H.G. Wells: A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, LITERARY LIVES, 2019. x+452 pp. $24.99 pbk. $19.99 ebk. In this addition to Palgrave’s LITERARY LIVES, the publisher notes: “The books in this series are thoroughly researched and comprehensive, covering the writer’s complete oeuvre” while exploring its contexts “in an accessible and engaging way” (ii). Adam Roberts is certainly as comprehensive and…
Modernist Antimodernist
273 BOOKS IN REVIEW letters and novels. Butcher’s readers were thus invited to discover Jules Verne’s rich career and to share his intimate thoughts throughout a long and productive life. With this expanded audiobook version of Verne’s biography, Butcher fulfills another goal: to show what the Vernian literary oeuvre might have been without Hetzel’s interference, without the radical changes he made to Verne’s novels, and without the publisher’s m…
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H.G. WellsNicole Lobdell Nancee Reeves
662 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) technological leap which is especially reflected in later science-fiction stories about the creation of artificial life forms” (191). The final essay of the collection by Brett M. Rogers also picks up on this in analyzing Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus (2012) and Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s comic book Ody-C (2014-). Rogers focuses primarily on the ways these texts, like Shelley’s, emphasize “th…
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology by Mark A. McCutcheon
193 BOOKS IN REVIEW authorial, editorial, and thematic progression might suggest. Advanced students who already know a basic history of sf will find what this book offers enlightening while uninitiated students might find it staggering. In addition to these pedagogical uses, it should be carried in libraries as an illuminating history of literary sf and a potent research tool.—Jason W. Ellis, New York City College of Technology, CUNY The Monster …
Reconciling Victor and the Monster
That Wonderful Year in Woking
Unheimlich Maneuvers
Lost World Thoroughly Mapped
An Unsuitable Memorial
Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology
Book Review| January 01 2006 Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology Subterranean Worlds: A Critical AnthologyFitting, Peter Nicholas Ruddick Nicholas Ruddick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (1): 228–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718806 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Ruddick; Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology. Utopian Studies 1 Janua…
Annotations, Appendices, Adaptations: Recent Work on H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romances
Jules Verne Roundtable
Tell Us All About Little Rosebery”: Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine
The essay seeks to demonstrate that the events described in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) are deliberately and rigorously historicized by being placed in a specific temporal relation to a moment in history that corresponds very closely to the date of the short novel’s composition. It also claims that The Time Machine’s unusual narrative structure may be accounted for by the novel’s hitherto largely unacknowledged topicality. Moreover, it w…
The Aesthetics of Descent: Recent Books on Nineteenth-Century Decadence
Nicholas Ruddick responds
Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age
There was a model of the terrestrial globe, some forty feet in circum- ference, therefore about the size of an ordinary three-story house: the reduction from reality was one millionth. It was not only the globe of the school-room magnified,—it was a synopsis of the conditions and the resources of this world of ours: the course of the rivers, the chains of the mountains, the infractuosities of the coast and the appalling expanse of the sea, the ex…
Life and Death by Electricity in 1890: The Transfiguration of William Kemmler
Falling Between Two Walls
Ballard/ Crash /Baudrillard
J.G. Ballard’s vehement general attack on postmodern criticism of science fiction in a recent issue of SFS seems curiously unmotivated. However, it might perhaps be explained by Ballard’s anger at Jean Baudrillard’s misreading of Ballard’s novel Crash, mitigated by Ballard’s admiration for Baudrillard’s other writings. (NR)
Breaking Out of the Sf Box: Recent Studies of James Bush and Ursula K. Le Guin
David Ketterer. Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1987. xvi + 410 pp. Illus. Bernard Selinger. Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction. Ann Arbor UMI Research Press, 1988. xii + 183 pp. In Robert Heinlein's story "-And He Built a Crooked House-," a group of Californians explore a real-estate developer's dream-come-true, an eight- room hypercuboid structure that occupies only as mu…
The World Turned Inside Out: Decoding Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama
Unlike Clarke’s other alien encounter novels. Rendezvous with Rama has seemed to critics to offer a vision of cosmic indifference rather than human transcendance. This is a serious misreading, the result of a failure to distinguish the relevant enigmas within the hermeneutic code on which the text heavily relies. Properly decoded, the text becomes a mirror in which the reader can glimpse a transcendent future for humanity achieved without any nee…
"Synaesthesia" in Emily Dickinson's Poetry
In his New Laocoon, Irving Babbitt attacked what has since come to be known as Seeing it as a symptom of a general confusion in the arts perpetrated by the Romantic movement, he concluded: We are living in an age that has gone mad on the powers of suggestion in everything from its arts to its therapeutics (1910:84). Critics of the next generation, finding perhaps that they were living in quite a different age, sought to defend literary synaesthes…
Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age
There was a model of the terrestrial globe, some forty feet in circum- ference, therefore about the size of an ordinary three-story house: the reduction from reality was one millionth. It was not only the globe of the school-room magnified,—it was a synopsis of the conditions and the resources of this world of ours: the course of the rivers, the chains of the mountains, the infractuosities of the coast and the appalling expanse of the sea, the ex…
"Synaesthesia" in Emily Dickinson's Poetry
In his New Laocoon, Irving Babbitt attacked what has since come to be known as Seeing it as a symptom of a general confusion in the arts perpetrated by the Romantic movement, he concluded: We are living in an age that has gone mad on the powers of suggestion in everything from its arts to its therapeutics (1910:84). Critics of the next generation, finding perhaps that they were living in quite a different age, sought to defend literary synaesthes…
The World Turned Inside Out: Decoding Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama
Unlike Clarke’s other alien encounter novels. Rendezvous with Rama has seemed to critics to offer a vision of cosmic indifference rather than human transcendance. This is a serious misreading, the result of a failure to distinguish the relevant enigmas within the hermeneutic code on which the text heavily relies. Properly decoded, the text becomes a mirror in which the reader can glimpse a transcendent future for humanity achieved without any nee…
Breaking Out of the Sf Box: Recent Studies of James Bush and Ursula K. Le Guin
David Ketterer. Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1987. xvi + 410 pp. Illus. Bernard Selinger. Le Guin and Identity in Contemporary Fiction. Ann Arbor UMI Research Press, 1988. xii + 183 pp. In Robert Heinlein's story "-And He Built a Crooked House-," a group of Californians explore a real-estate developer's dream-come-true, an eight- room hypercuboid structure that occupies only as mu…
Ballard/ Crash /Baudrillard
J.G. Ballard’s vehement general attack on postmodern criticism of science fiction in a recent issue of SFS seems curiously unmotivated. However, it might perhaps be explained by Ballard’s anger at Jean Baudrillard’s misreading of Ballard’s novel Crash, mitigated by Ballard’s admiration for Baudrillard’s other writings. (NR)
Falling Between Two Walls
Life and Death by Electricity in 1890: The Transfiguration of William Kemmler
Nicholas Ruddick responds
Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age
There was a model of the terrestrial globe, some forty feet in circum- ference, therefore about the size of an ordinary three-story house: the reduction from reality was one millionth. It was not only the globe of the school-room magnified,—it was a synopsis of the conditions and the resources of this world of ours: the course of the rivers, the chains of the mountains, the infractuosities of the coast and the appalling expanse of the sea, the ex…
The Aesthetics of Descent: Recent Books on Nineteenth-Century Decadence
Tell Us All About Little Rosebery”: Topicality and Temporality in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine
The essay seeks to demonstrate that the events described in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) are deliberately and rigorously historicized by being placed in a specific temporal relation to a moment in history that corresponds very closely to the date of the short novel’s composition. It also claims that The Time Machine’s unusual narrative structure may be accounted for by the novel’s hitherto largely unacknowledged topicality. Moreover, it w…
Annotations, Appendices, Adaptations: Recent Work on H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romances
Jules Verne Roundtable
Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology
Book Review| January 01 2006 Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology Subterranean Worlds: A Critical AnthologyFitting, Peter Nicholas Ruddick Nicholas Ruddick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2006) 17 (1): 228–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718806 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Ruddick; Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology. Utopian Studies 1 Janua…
An Unsuitable Memorial
Lost World Thoroughly Mapped
Unheimlich Maneuvers
That Wonderful Year in Woking
Reconciling Victor and the Monster
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H.G. WellsNicole Lobdell Nancee Reeves
662 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) technological leap which is especially reflected in later science-fiction stories about the creation of artificial life forms” (191). The final essay of the collection by Brett M. Rogers also picks up on this in analyzing Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus (2012) and Matt Fraction and Christian Ward’s comic book Ody-C (2014-). Rogers focuses primarily on the ways these texts, like Shelley’s, emphasize “th…
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology by Mark A. McCutcheon
193 BOOKS IN REVIEW authorial, editorial, and thematic progression might suggest. Advanced students who already know a basic history of sf will find what this book offers enlightening while uninitiated students might find it staggering. In addition to these pedagogical uses, it should be carried in libraries as an illuminating history of literary sf and a potent research tool.—Jason W. Ellis, New York City College of Technology, CUNY The Monster …
Modernist Antimodernist
273 BOOKS IN REVIEW letters and novels. Butcher’s readers were thus invited to discover Jules Verne’s rich career and to share his intimate thoughts throughout a long and productive life. With this expanded audiobook version of Verne’s biography, Butcher fulfills another goal: to show what the Vernian literary oeuvre might have been without Hetzel’s interference, without the radical changes he made to Verne’s novels, and without the publisher’s m…
Full of Whoosh
167 BOOKS IN REVIEW Full of Whoosh. Adam Roberts. H.G. Wells: A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, LITERARY LIVES, 2019. x+452 pp. $24.99 pbk. $19.99 ebk. In this addition to Palgrave’s LITERARY LIVES, the publisher notes: “The books in this series are thoroughly researched and comprehensive, covering the writer’s complete oeuvre” while exploring its contexts “in an accessible and engaging way” (ii). Adam Roberts is certainly as comprehensive and…
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