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H. G. Wells’s «Fin-de-Siècle»

Twenty-first Century Reflections on the Early H. G. Wells- Selections from «The Wellsian»

by John Partington (Volume editor)
©2007 Edited Collection VI, 154 Pages

Summary

The essays contained in this collection focus on the early H. G. Wells, the scientific romancer, the comic novelist and the young author discovering the literary élite. Written at the crossroads of a new century, the authors of these essays use their own fin-de-siècle experiences to look back one hundred years and critically assess the writings of an earlier fin-de-siècle. With seven chapters dealing with The Time Machine, The Wheels of Chance, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr Polly, readers receive a detailed overview of Wells’s literary output between 1895 and 1910. Two further chapters treat Wells’s literary friendships, assessing his personal and professional relationships with the Victorian realist, George Gissing, and the pioneering modernist, Joseph Conrad, while the final chapter reveals Wells as a ‘time traveller’, employing poststructuralist techniques fifty years before that expression was coined.

Details

Pages
VI, 154
Publication Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631571118
Language
English
Keywords
Wells, Herbert G. Roman Fin de siècle Conrad, Joseph Gissing, George Lodge, David Science Fiction Aufsatzsammlung Wells, H. G.
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. VI, 154 pp.

Biographical notes

John Partington (Volume editor)

The Editor: John S. Partington is the editor of The Wellsian, the journal of the H. G. Wells Society. He is also the author of Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H. G. Wells, and the editor of The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H. G. Wells and (with Patrick Parrinder) The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe. He is currently editing H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946 and David C. Smith’s The Definitive Bibliography of Herbert George Wells.

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