H.G. Wells : traversing time
"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
Print Book, English, ©2004
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 334 pages ; 23 cm.
9780819567253, 0819567256
56471852
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