William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, ed. Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges

Authors

Sean Scanlan, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-10-2022

Abstract

Sean Scanlan reviews the 2021 collection titled "William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture" for American Literary History. Edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges, this eleven-chapter study, published by University of Iowa Press, outlines Gibson’s career and addresses three overarching questions or problematics: Gibson and literary history, Gibson and the question of medium, and the problem of the present.

Comments

This work was originally published in ALH Online Review, Series XXXIII, available at https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac213.