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Maps of Utopia : H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191640018
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maps of UtopiaDDC classification:
  • 823.912
LOC classification:
  • PR5777.J345 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Of Art, Of Literature, Of Mr. H. G. Wells -- 2. The History of the Future: The Scientific Romances -- 3. The Uses of Literacy: Reading and Realism in Wells's Novels -- 4. The Idea of a Planned World: H. G. Wells's Utopias -- 5. Education and Catastrophe: The War and the World -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: This is the first study of the literary theories of H. G. Wells, the founding father of English science fiction and once the most widely read writer in the world. It explores his entire career, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, and prophecy, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Of Art, Of Literature, Of Mr. H. G. Wells -- 2. The History of the Future: The Scientific Romances -- 3. The Uses of Literacy: Reading and Realism in Wells's Novels -- 4. The Idea of a Planned World: H. G. Wells's Utopias -- 5. Education and Catastrophe: The War and the World -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

This is the first study of the literary theories of H. G. Wells, the founding father of English science fiction and once the most widely read writer in the world. It explores his entire career, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, and prophecy, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction.

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