The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances (Heritage),Used
The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances (Heritage),Used

The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances (Heritage),Used

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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.Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First Men in the Moon, his last significant scientific romance, and Anticipations, his first systematic nonfictional 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.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 and pessimism rather than to the utopian optimism associated with his later career.These romances reflect in imaginative and nondiscursive form some of the major preoccupations of lateVictorian England: the impact of Darwinism, of Socialism, and an increasing lack of national selfconfidence. Mr. Bergonzi sees Wells as essentially a fin de sicle mythmaker, and he argues that it is this aspect of Wells work which most requires attention if he is to be remembered in the future. Two early pieces by Wells, now unobtainable elsewhere, are given in an Appendix. One, The Chronic Argonauts, a fragment of a fantastic novel written at the age of 21, is the earliest draft of The Time Machine.

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