Böcker i Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism Series-serien

Provides a revealing study of the connections between nineteenth-century technological fiction and American religious faith. In Gears and God, Nathaniel Williams analyses the genre of technology-themed exploration novels - dime novel adventure stories featuring steam-powered and electrified robots, airships, and submersibles.

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.