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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"H. G. Wells"”.
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H. G. Wells: Prophet With Honor (Britain)
Critics and biographers of H. G. Wells have commonly disregarded his journalism and much of is nonfiction. After the Edwardian period Wells's reputation as a novelist began to deteriorate. He continued to produce novels, but he turned more to the writing of journalism and nonfiction. Dismissed as …
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The life and novels of H. G. Wells
… in all of the novels the main interest, both to Wells and to the Reader, lies in the matter of theme. I have discussed the novels, therefore, in such a way as to make clear the nature of the themes, and to show how Wells has presented them. In doing the latter, I have considered some matters of …
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An Edition and a Survey of H. G. Wells 'The War of the Worlds'
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The Scientific romances of Charles Howard Hinton : the fourth dimension as hyperspace, hyperrealism and protomodernism
… writers including Lewis Carroll, H. G. Wells, HenryJames, Friedrich Nietzsche and William James.
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… and <em>The Last Man</em> (1826), and H. G. Wells’s <em>The Time Machine</em> (1895) and <em>The Island of Doctor Moreau</em> (1896) as examples of nineteenth-century horror and apocalypse literature. Specifically, I argue that these four novels perform as what Kenneth Burke calls “equipment …
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
… through the early science fiction of H. G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, E. M. Forster's “The Machine Stops” and Karel Čapek's R.U.R.. It demonstrates how the “human” operates in a state of flux, in parallel with its environment which both defines and is defined by the “human.” I argue that …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… Bacon, Edward Bellamy and the later H. G. Wells accepted science, while the work of William Morris, Aldous Huxley and Kurt Vonnegut rejected science in preference for a different social order. More's Utopia and Bacon's New Atlantis were written at a time when feudal, agricultural society …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… using the works of Jules Verne and H G Wells. 2. Apocalypses of Irony and Despair. The nineteen twenties to the end of the Second World War; the crises of the two World Wars on a complacent world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… animal housing at the London Zoo, H. G. Wells chose to hire modern architects as consultants when translating to the screen his visions of a utopian world in 1936'sThings to Come. And when Britain's foremost modern architectural group needed a public figure to provide an …
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A supreme fire of thought and spirit : modernist patterns of cultural renewal in First World War Britain
… the study examines the wartime writings of H. G. Wells, focusing on how the war led him to propose his own modernist religion as a solution to wartime modernity's alleged decadence. Having located modernist qualities in Wells' wartime non-fiction and fiction, chapter five explores the ideas of May …
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Irish modernism and the machine
"This dissertation argues that John Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, …
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… in Stoker’s novel. My third chapter pairs H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with his gaming books, Floor Games (1911) and Little Wars (1913); in it I offer an account of how the miniature and the underground work together to promote a masculinity that preserves itself through pacifist …