The Rebirth of Romanticism: The Visionary Heritage of the Fantasy Known as Science Fiction (tentative title of book)

FAIN: FT-12722-75

John W. Kinnaird
University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)

To examine the relationship between Romanticism and science fiction. Romanticism was the first literature to recognize that consciousness is a projection of ideas upon the work, and to dramatize the conflict which ensues when the self acts or reacts upon awareness of a condition which is both man's finitude and creative freedom. P.I. maintains that science fiction was contemporary with and an extension of Romanticism.