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Maps of utopia : H.G. Wells, modernity, and the end of culture / Simon J. James.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford scholarship onlinePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.Description: xiv, 230p.: 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780199606597 (hbk)
  • 9780198833772 (pbk)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 823.912 23 JAM
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Contents:
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.
Summary: This is a 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 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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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.

This is a 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 career, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history politics, and prophecy, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued as part of Oxford scholarship online.

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