The early fiction of H.G. Wells[elec...
McLean, Steven, (1973-)

 

  • The early fiction of H.G. Wells[electronic resource] :fantasies of science /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823/.912
    書名/作者: The early fiction of H.G. Wells : fantasies of science // Steven McLean.
    作者: McLean, Steven,
    出版者: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: ix, 242 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: Science fiction, English - History and criticism.
    標題: Literature and science - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Literature and science - History - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Fantasy in literature.
    ISBN: 9780230236639
    ISBN: 0230236634
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-232) and index.
    內容註: Heart of Darkness: The Time Machine and Retrogression -- 'An Infernally Rum Place': The Island of Doctor Moreau and Degeneration -- ScienceBehind the Blinds: Scientist and Society in The Invisible Man -- The Descent of Mars: Evolution and Ethics in The War of the Worlds -- 'Science is a Matchthat Man has Just Got Alight': Science and Social Organisation in The First Men in the Moon -- The Limits of a Sociological Holiday: Social Progress in A Modern Utopia.
    摘要、提要註: H.G. Wells erupted onto the literary scene with a succession of brilliant scientific novels, or 'scientific romances', including The Time Machine (1895), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The First Men in the Moon (1901). Generally acknowledged as the pioneers of modern science fiction, Wells's early novels are immersed in contemporary science. In TheEarly Fiction of H.G. Wells: Fantasies ofScience, Steven McLean offers a detailed and comprehensive study of the interconnections between Wells's scientific romances and the discourses of science in the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century. Restoring the author's early fiction to the context of the periodical press and scientific publications more generally, McLean investigates how Wells utilises his scientificromances to participate in a range of topical scientific debates, but also disputes with such leading 'men of science' as T.H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer. He concludes that Wells's scientific romances retain a definite resonance in the twenty-first century.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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