The Early H.G. Wells : : A Study of the Scientific Romances / / Bernard Bergonzi.
This is a sensitive study of Wells’ imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells’ early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction.Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early...
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Bergonzi, Bernard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Early H.G. Wells : A Study of the Scientific Romances / Bernard Bergonzi. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1961 1 online resource (236 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. H. G. Wells and the Fin de Siècle -- II. From The Chronic Argonauts to The Time Machine -- III. The Short Stories -- IV. The Wonderful Visit, The Island of Dr Moreau, and The Invisible Man -- V. The War of the Worlds -- VI. When the Sleeper Wakes and The First Men in the Moon -- VII. Wells and the Twentieth Century -- Select Bibliography -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This is a sensitive study of Wells’ imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells’ early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction.Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First Men in the Moon, his last significant scientific romance, and Anticipations, his first systematic non-fictional treatise. The main emphasis of his study falls on the scientific romances of the nineties, which are examined in detail. In addition to literary analysis, relevant source material and reviews, which show how contemporaries received Wells’ work, are noted.Wells’ early attitude to science is shown to have been deeply ambivalent, as is apparent in his successive uses of the Frankenstein archetype. His intellectual attitudes tended towards scepticism and pessimism rather than to the ‘utopian’ optimism associated with his later career.These romances reflect in imaginative and non-discursive form some of the major preoccupations of late-Victorian England: the impact of Darwinism, of Socialism, and an increasing lack of national self-confidence. Mr. Bergonzi sees Wells as essentially a fin de siècle myth-maker, and he argues that it is this aspect of Wells’ work which most requires attention if he is to be remembered in the future. Two early pieces by Wells, now unobtainable elsewhere, are given in an Appendix. One, The Chronic Argonauts, a fragment of a fantastic novel written at the age of 21, is the earliest draft of The Time Machine. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Science fiction, English History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442656864 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442656864 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442656864.jpg |
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