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H.G. Wells : traversing time / W. Warren Wagar.
- Title
- H.G. Wells : traversing time / W. Warren Wagar.
- Author
- Wagar, W. Warren
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 334 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 history and future of humankind - to show the persisting and provocative relevance of Wells's work."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series
- Uniform Title
- Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-323) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0819567256 (hc)
- LCCN
- ^^2004303053
- OCLC
- 56471852
- SCSB-11389894
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library