The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-19-888502-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 1320 g

H.G. Wells was one of the leading literary figures and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Famous today as a pioneering science fiction writer, Wells was also a prominent social and political thinker, journalist, historian, and political activist. His writings helped shape the intellectual life of the age. Yet up to now, there has not been a volume that addresses the full range of his work, influence, and accomplishments.

The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Well aims to fill this gap. Bringing together a diverse group of scholars from literary studies, history, politics and sociology, this Handbook is the most wide-ranging scholarly account of Wells, placing his work in a fully global context and engaging with many issues of interest to scholars and readers across humanities and social sciences. This Handbook explores the development and influence of Wells ideas from the late nineteenth century until his death in 1946, as well as their circulation around the world. With chapters on gender, science, race, empire, ecology, and more, this volume is sure to appeal to a wide range of H.G. Wells scholars and fans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bell, Duncan

Cole, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Section I. Life

- 1: Brenda Tyrrell: Childhood, Family, and Relationships

- 2: Michael Sherborne: Fame and the Life of a Public Figure

- 3: Emelyne Godfrey: Wells and His Networks

- 4: Robert Crossley: The Air They Breathed: Readers and the Culture of Wellsianism

- Section II. Works

- 5: Roger Luckhurst: The Time Machine: An Invention

- 6: Gretchen Braun: The Island of Doctor Moreau: The Precarity of Anthropogenic Change

- 7: Jed Esty: The War of the Worlds: Aliens Forever at the Gate

- 8: Gauri Viswanathan: Tono-Bungay: The Discourse of Value

- 9: Debra Rae Cohen: Mr Britling Sees It Through: Wells among the Non-Combatants

- 10: Adam Roberts: Short Fiction

- 11: Steven Mclean: The Outline of History: Education or Catastrophe

- 12: Darryl Jones: The Shape of Things to Come: "Ideas in Chaos and Society in Collapse"

- 13: Well's Late Novels: Art and the Rise of Fascism, Tiziano De Marino

- Section III. Genre, Form, and Literary Movements

- 14: Simon J. James: Wells and the Fin de Siècle

- 15: Vincent Sherry: The Revolution Inside Wells War

- 16: David Seed: Wells and Science Fiction

- 17: John Plotz: Kinetic Satire: Science Fiction in Wells Shadow

- 18: Sarah Cole: Wells and Modernism

- 19: Will Tattersdill: Wells and Periodical Literature

- 20: Patrick Parrinder: Wells and the Gothic

- 21: Eileen M. Hunt: Wells and the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination

- Section IV. Science and Technology

- 22: Piers J. Hale: Wells and the Politics of Evolution

- 23: Maren Linett: Wells and Bio-Utopianism: Eugenic and Transhumanist Modes

- 24: Angelique Richardson: Wells "The Eugenist who destroyed Eugenics"

- 25: Charles M. Tung: Wells and Time

- 26: David Shackleton: Wells and the Anthropocene

- 27: Emily C. Bloom: Wells and Radio

- 28: Keith Williams: Wells, Cinema, and Related Media

- Section V. Politics and Society

- 29: Carey Snyder: Wells among His Feminist Peers

- 30: Max Saunders: Wells and the Future

- 31: Megan Faragher: Wells and Sociological Method

- 32: Lisa M. Lane: Wells and the Educational Impulse

- 33: Gregory Claeys: Wells and Utopianism

- 34: Richard Toye: Wells and Socialism

- 35: Emma Planinc: Wells and Human Rights

- 36: Suzanne Hobson: Wells on Christianity and Secularism

- 37: Jeremy Withers: Wells on War

- 38: Amanda Rees: Wells and the City

- Section VI. Global Wells

- 39: Duncan Bell: Wells and Empire: A Convenience and Not a God

- 40: De Witt Douglas Kilgore: Wells and the Idea of Race

- 41: Maxim Shadurski: Wells and the World State

- 42: Li Guangyi and Huang Yafei: Wells in China

- 43: Suparno Banerjee: Wells and Early Twentieth-Century Bangla Science Fiction

- 44: Kimiyo Ogawa: Wells and Japan: Adapting Evolution

- 45: Galya Diment: Wells in Russia

- 46: Lise Jaillant: Wells and the North American Literary Market

- Section VII. Epilogue

- 47: Felix J. Palma: Time Traveling

Über Autor(innen)

Duncan Bell is Professor of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Sarah Cole, Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature, is Dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University; previously she served as Dean of Humanities and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature. An expert on literary modernism, she is the co-founder of the NYNJ Modernism Seminar.