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Author : Peter Kemp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book H.G. Wells and the Culminating Ape written by Peter Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Kemp
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349248320
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book H. G. Wells and the Culminating Ape written by Peter Kemp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was strongly influenced by the biologist's training he received during his three years as a student at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington (now Imperial College, London). Those things which a creature needs in order for it and its species to thrive get particular attention in Wells's books. Tracing biological themes through Wells's work, as Peter Kemp does here, shows the pattern of his thought and brings to light the bizarre workings of a fascinating imagination. For the book's reissue in paperback, an afterword has been added.
Author : Peter Kemp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book H. G. Wells and the Culminating Ape written by Peter Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Warren Wagar
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567253
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)
Download or read book H.G. Wells written by W. Warren Wagar and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
Author : Justin E.A. Busch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455497
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells written by Justin E.A. Busch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and develops the evolutionary utopian ideas of H.G. Wells. It begins with a detailed consideration of the types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies, as well as the social, aesthetic and intellectual aspects of utopian life in Wells's books. It then discusses the role of the state and how Wells's utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader's understanding of his or her own position relative to current and future societies.
Author : Jeff Prucher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195305671
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Brave new words written by Jeff Prucher and published by . This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Cole
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550162
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Inventing Tomorrow written by Sarah Cole and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as “time machine,” “war of the worlds,” and “atomic bomb,” exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity’s place in the universe. Wells was a public intellectual with a worldwide readership. He met with world leaders, including Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill, and his books were international best-sellers. Yet critics and scholars have largely forgotten his accomplishments or relegated them to genre fiction, overlooking their breadth and diversity. In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells’s work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wells’s limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literature’s moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
Author : Frank Field
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521392778
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (927 download)
Download or read book British and French Writers of the First World War written by Frank Field and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the Great War on some of France and Britain's most prominent writers.
Author : Chris Danta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428207
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Animal Fables after Darwin written by Chris Danta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198853610
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Science Fiction written by Michael Newton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist fantasy.
Author : Douglas Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787157X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book English Fiction of the Early Modern Period written by Douglas Hewitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century English literature from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Joyce and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh. There are chapters on the younger writers of the age as well as the more popular minor writers like Buchan and Dornford Yates.
Author : Peder Anker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674005952
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Imperial Ecology written by Peder Anker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and descriptive pieces - in sum: amusement, information, and variety - Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives could be enjoyed by a wide reading public. A rather similar book had been published in Latin in the previous century by Aulus Gellius; Aelian is a late, perhaps the last, representative of what had been a very popular genre. Here then are anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights; myths instructively retold; moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports about styles in dress, foods and drink, lovers, gift-giving practices, entertainments, religious beliefs and death customs; and comments on Greek painting. Some of the information is not preserved in any other source. Underlying it all are Aelian's Stoic ideals as well as this Roman's great admiration for the culture of the Greeks (whose language he borrowed for his writings).
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135923736
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Science Fact and Science Fiction written by Brian Stableford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030140423
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Victorian Environmental Nightmares written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore various “environmental nightmares” through applied analyses of Victorian texts. Over the course of the nineteenth century, writers of imaginative literature often expressed fears and concerns over environmental degradation (in its wide variety of meanings, including social and moral). In some instances, natural or environmental disasters influenced these responses; in other instances a growing awareness of problems caused by industrial pollution and the growth of cities prompted responses. Seven essays in this volume cover works about Britain and its current and former colonies that examine these nightmare environments at home and abroad. But as the remaining five essays in this collection demonstrate, “environmental nightmares” are not restricted to essays on actual disasters or realistic fiction, since in many cases Victorian writers projected onto imperial landscapes or wholly imagined landscapes in fantastic fiction their anxieties about how humans might change their environments—and how these environments might also change humans.
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0878333061
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (783 download)
Download or read book The H.G. Wells Reader written by Herbert George Wells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, the first of its kind, indicates the full breadth of Well's visionary views and social commentary.
Author : Tobias Hochscherf
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484837
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book British Science Fiction Film and Television written by Tobias Hochscherf and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and television. Viewing British SF as a cultural phenomenon that challenges straightforward definitions of genre, nationhood, authorship and media, the editors provide a conceptual introduction placing the essays within their critical context. Essay topics include Hammer science fiction films, the various incarnations of Doctor Who, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, and such 21st-century productions as 28 Days Later and Torchwood.
Author : Mary Addyman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135172715X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945 written by Mary Addyman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into three parts, essays focus on the food scandals of the early Victorian era, the decadence and greed of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and the effects of austerity caused by two world wars.
