H.G. Wells: traversing time

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"The English writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) is one of the giants of science fiction. His early novels, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction. But he also wrote mainstream novels, journalism, political tracts, a memoir, and purely didactic fiction designed to support his various causes. In this comprehensive new critical study, W. Warren Wagar traces Wells's obsession with the unfolding of public time - in short, with the …

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Full title :H.G. Wells : traversing time / W. Warren Wagar.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wesleyan University Press
Place of Publication:Middletown, Conn
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 334 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0819567256, 9780819567253
oclc:ocm56471852
LC Classification:PR5777
Dewey Decimal:823/.91209

The trace of the flow of thought -- The universe rigid and unique -- Romances of evolution -- A classic dystopia -- The point of no return -- Modernizing utopia -- Writing novels -- Wells at war -- Education versus catastrophe -- The open conspirator -- Romances of revolution -- Before and beyond modernism --Wells at war again.

Subjects

17.82 literary criticism 18.05 English literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Science fiction, English Science fiction, English -- History and… Science-fiction anglaise -- Histoire et… Time travel in literature Voyages dans le temps -- Dans la littér… Wells, H. G., (Herbert George)