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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Time Machine"”.
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em> (1818) 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 …
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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
This thesis traces the inter-relation between human/machine hybrid figures, imagination and “human” subjectivity 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 …
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Underground literature: Reshaping gender and nation in British and Irish fiction, 1871-1935
… twentieth-century texts, it demonstrates how the unusual and unusually durable topoi of underground space acts as a proving ground for intersections of gender dynamics and national identities that, for a variety of reasons, are less common in non-speculative environments. These texts span an …
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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
This thesis unites a selection of H. G. Wells’s scientific romances with the theoretical approaches of philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Deleuzian theory provides a challenging yet powerful set of conceptual tools, used to rethink existing texts and critical paradigms, allowing the revaluation of …