Steven McLean
Autor(a) de The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science
Obras de Steven McLean
Associated Works
The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) — Editor, algumas edições — 52 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th century
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 11
- Popularidade
- #857,862
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 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!… (mais)