Author: Peter Kemp
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was strongly influenced by the biologist's training he received during his three years as a student at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington (now Imperial College, London). Those things which a creature needs in order for it and its species to thrive get particular attention in Wells's books. Tracing biological themes through Wells's work, as Peter Kemp does here, shows the pattern of his thought and brings to light the bizarre workings of a fascinating imagination. For the book's reissue in paperback, an afterword has been added.
H. G. Wells and the Culminating Ape
Author: Peter Kemp
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was strongly influenced by the biologist's training he received during his three years as a student at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington (now Imperial College, London). Those things which a creature needs in order for it and its species to thrive get particular attention in Wells's books. Tracing biological themes through Wells's work, as Peter Kemp does here, shows the pattern of his thought and brings to light the bizarre workings of a fascinating imagination. For the book's reissue in paperback, an afterword has been added.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was strongly influenced by the biologist's training he received during his three years as a student at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington (now Imperial College, London). Those things which a creature needs in order for it and its species to thrive get particular attention in Wells's books. Tracing biological themes through Wells's work, as Peter Kemp does here, shows the pattern of his thought and brings to light the bizarre workings of a fascinating imagination. For the book's reissue in paperback, an afterword has been added.
H.G. Wells and the Culminating Ape
H. G. Wells and the Culminating Ape
H.G. Wells
Author: W. Warren Wagar
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
Author: Justin E.A. Busch
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book examines and develops the evolutionary utopian ideas of H.G. Wells. It begins with a detailed consideration of the types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies, as well as the social, aesthetic and intellectual aspects of utopian life in Wells's books. It then discusses the role of the state and how Wells's utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader's understanding of his or her own position relative to current and future societies.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book examines and develops the evolutionary utopian ideas of H.G. Wells. It begins with a detailed consideration of the types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies, as well as the social, aesthetic and intellectual aspects of utopian life in Wells's books. It then discusses the role of the state and how Wells's utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader's understanding of his or her own position relative to current and future societies.
When the Sleeper Wakes
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460406176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
As George Orwell wrote in 1940, “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it.” Graham, the “sleeper” of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism. The novel was re-written and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460406176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
As George Orwell wrote in 1940, “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it.” Graham, the “sleeper” of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism. The novel was re-written and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.
British and French Writers of the First World War
Author: Frank Field
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521392778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The impact of the Great War on some of France and Britain's most prominent writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521392778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The impact of the Great War on some of France and Britain's most prominent writers.
Animal Fables after Darwin
Author: Chris Danta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.
The Origins of Science Fiction
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198853610
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198853610
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.
English Fiction of the Early Modern Period
Author: Douglas Hewitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131787157X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century English literature from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Joyce and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh. There are chapters on the younger writers of the age as well as the more popular minor writers like Buchan and Dornford Yates.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131787157X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century English literature from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Joyce and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh. There are chapters on the younger writers of the age as well as the more popular minor writers like Buchan and Dornford Yates.