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About the Author
Paolo Mantegazza (1831-1910) was a prominent Italian neurologist, physiologist, anthropologist, defender and correspondent of Darwin, and fiction writer. Nicoletta Pireddu is the director of the comparative literature program and an associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Georgetown University. She is the editor of Paolo Mantegazza's Physiology of Love and Other Writings. David Jacobson translated Mantegazza's Physiology of Love and Other Writings.
Reviews
"Two welcome surprises await readers of this book: the first is simply that a nineteenth-century masterpiece of utopian literature has been made available to them in a translation that reads like an original, and the second, that a great scholar has written a user-friendly, highly sophisticated, and passionate introduction shedding light on the times of neo-positivism, its antecedents, and its legacy."-Luigi Ballerini, professor of Italian, University of California at Los Angeles
"Thanks to the extensive introduction, The Year 3000: A Dream will appeal to anyone interested in the literary evolution of science fiction or the early contributions to the genre of one very talented and foresighted Italian fiction writer."-Alan J. Couture, ForeWord
"The Year 3000 is indeed an alternative universe where the world is a better place for all and true love is the most powerful force in the universe. Enjoy the trip."-Patricia Contino, Newpages.com
"The Year 3000. A Dream constitutes an important addition to the relatively small number of nineteenth-century Italian novels available in English and is an invaluable text to add to any class, whether within a comparative context or not, teaching nineteenth-century Italian literature."-Gabriella Romani, Annali d'italianistica
Book Information
ISBN 9780803230323
Author Paolo Mantegazza
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Series Bison Frontiers of Imagination