Steven McLean
Autore di The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science
Opere di Steven McLean
Opere correlate
The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 52 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 11
- Popolarità
- #857,862
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
What you get from all this is a very solid monograph, one that shows how Wells was interested in what science could say about society: whether society was evolving (and how), how science could be used to shape a better society, what role scientists had to play in society, could eugenics improve society, what did evolution have to do with imperialism, and so on. This is a set of well-articulated perspectives on six H. G. Wells novels, the kind of thing that can be a very helpful grounding when you go off to write about those novels yourself. I should cite it more!… (altro)