Search Results for H. G. Wells

.... Pp. xl + 337. $6.00. George Gissing and H. G. Wells: Their Friendship and Correspondence. Edited with an introduction by ROYALA. GETTMANN.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 285. $3.50. These two collections of letters advance the emergence of George Gissing’s...

...Zoe Beenstock H. G. Wells’s diverse works of literature and political theory make him a test case for lines of intersection between modernity and the Enlightenment, a period concerned with the relations between the two genres. Traditionally, studies of Wells go back only as far as Victorianism...

...Eleanor Courtemanche Abstract In the late nineteenth century the literary genre of utopia enjoyed a boom inspired by the success of Edward Bellamy’s 1888 Looking Backward, 2000–1887 . These stories, including novels by William Morris and H. G. Wells, often featured a cicerone who explained how...

... of scientific developments accelerated the growth of science fiction. Among the all-time leaders in this particular field of writing was the inimitable H. G. Wells. Another tendency that has been fostered by modern conditions is the almost Carroll E. Reed...

... make the best biographical subjects. RICHARDD. ALTICK Ohio State Uniuersity Anatomies of Egotism: A Reading of the Last Novels of H. G. Wells. By ROBERTBLOOM. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. ix + 196...

... of a man who could never catch up with circumstance. The last forays with publishers, agents, and faster and faster production need the humanizing docu- ments of friends-Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells, and others-who remind us that Crane himself...

... + 155 pp. $10.00. Blooh, Robert. Anatomies of Egotism: A Reading of the Last Nouels of H. G. Wells. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. ix + 196 pp. $1.0.95. Brubaker, Edward S. Shakespeare Aloud: A Guide to His Verse on Stage. Lancaster, Pa.: The author, 1976.65 pp...

... in the intensification of socialistic doctrines, particularly in the latter half of the nine- teenth century. At the same time the increased pace of scientific developments accelerated the growth of science fiction. Among the all-time leaders in this particular field of writing was the inimitable H. G. Wells...

... principles of Politicd Justice are “perennial ideas” in Shelley. He traces Godwin’s influence on the socialist writers of England down through Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells. He believes that with recogni- tion by men like Middleton Murry and H. N. Brailsford, Godwin is being given “his rightful...

..., Gordon N. (editor). The Desert Darisy, by H. G. Wells. Facsimile edition, with an Introduction. Urbana: Published by Beta Phi Mu, University of Illinois, 1957. Pp. xix + 124. $5.00. Ribner, Irving. The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare. Prince- ton: Princeton University...

... not still object to the quality of this “mask” which confronts us in the novels? Tillotson has not yet answered H. G. Wells, whose objec- tions may still seem legitimate to many readers: Nearly all novels that have, by the lapse of time, reached an assured position of recognised greatness...

... elements in Queen Mab, that Nellas shows little specific debt to Godwin, but that the under- lying principles of Politicd Justice are “perennial ideas” in Shelley. He traces Godwin’s influence on the socialist writers of England down through Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells. He believes...

... identifies as the “anti-modernist modernism” of H. G. Wells, Wyndham Lewis, and G. K. Chesterton, all of whom expressed antipathy toward key modernist imperatives yet funneled that hostility through forms of treatment that place them in an uneasy alliance with their enemies. Caserio’s claim that “‘modernism...

... the Fabian Society, of which Sidney was an early member. They weathered the passionate opposition of H. G. Wells, who satirized them unmercifully in The New Machiauelli (19 11). They founded the New Statesman and the London School of Economics, which are still flourishing monuments to their activity...

... University Press on Behalf of the Australian Humanities Research Council, 1960. Pp. vii + 88. $1.95. Paulson, Ronald. Theme and Structure in Swift’s Tale of a Tub. New Haven: Yale Studies in English, Vol. 143, 1960. Pp. xiv + 259. $4.50. Wilson, Harris (editor). Arnold Bennett and H. G...

... Kingsley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, H. G. Wells, and Robert Louis Stevenson; to paintings by Luke Fildes—Robinson does a splendid job of showing how the meaning of the figure changed over time and in different racial and regional contexts. “The vagrant,” “the loafer,” “the Gypsy,” “the hawker...

... (editors). Henry James and H. G. Wells: A Record of Their Friendship, Their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and Their Quarrel. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. Pp. 272. $3.50. Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1958. Pp...

... as it is actual” (141); on the characters in Margaret Oliphant’s novels, “sustained and trapped by their milieu,” who “strive for a ‘life elsewhere’ even as they are surrounded by those things, those blocky objects, that make life real” (116); on H. G. Wells’s scientific romances, which continually situate us...

... Gissing and H. G. Wells : Their Friend- ship and Correspondence. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 285. $3.50. Goldgar, Bertrand A. The Curse of Party: Swift’s Relations with Addison and Steele. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1961, Pp. viii + 199. $4.00. Harth...

.... Gettmann, Royal A. (editor). George Gissing and H. G. Wells : Their Friend- ship and Correspondence. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1961. Pp. 285. $3.50. Goldgar, Bertrand A. The Curse of Party: Swift’s Relations with Addison and Steele. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press...