The Early H.G. Wells A Study of the Scientific Romances【電子書籍】[ Bernard Bergonzi ]

＜p＞This is a sensitive study of Wells’ imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells’ early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published ＜em＞The First Men in the Moon＜/em＞, his last significant scientific romance, and ＜em＞Anticipations＜/em＞, his first systematic non-fictional treatise. The main emphasis of his study falls on the scientific romances of the nineties, which are examined in detail. In addition to literary analysis, relevant source material and reviews, which show how contemporaries received Wells’ work, are noted.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wells’ early attitude to science is shown to have been deeply ambivalent, as is apparent in his successive uses of the Frankenstein archetype. His intellectual attitudes tended towards scepticism a．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る