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Title:
H. G. Wells's perennial Time machine : selected essays from the Centenary Conference "The Time Machine : Past, Present, and Future", Imperial college, London, July 26-29, 1995 / edited by George Slusser, Patrick Parrinder, Danièle Chatelain.
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press,
Copyright Date:
2001
Description:
xvi, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Wells, H. G.--(Herbert George),--1866-1946.--Time machine--Congresses.
Literature and science--England--History--20th century--Congresses.
Science fiction, English--History and criticism--Congresses.
Time travel in literature--Congresses.
Other Authors:
Slusser, George Edgar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023335
Parrinder, Patrick, 1944- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50050786
Chatelain, Danièle. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99011780
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The time machine as a first novel : myth and allegory in Wells's romance / J.R. Hammond -- Taking it as a story : the beautiful lie of The time machine / Robert Crossley -- Was the time machine necessary? / Paul Alkon -- The rebirth of a scientific intelligence : or, from "traveller" to "travailer" in the The time machine / Frank Scafella -- Time before and after The time machine / W.M.S. Russell -- Wells and neoteny / Kirby Farrell -- The time machine and Victorian mythology / Sylvia Hardy -- The time machine and Wells's social trajectory / John Huntington -- From Rome to Richmond : Wells, universal history, and prophetic time / Patrick Parrinder -- Change in the city : the time traveller's London and the 'baseless fabric" of his vision / Carlo Pagetti -- Time at the end of its tether : H. G. Wells and the subversion of master narrative / Larry W. Caldwell -- The legacy of H.G. Wells's The time machine : destabilization and observation / Joshua Stein -- Wells and the sequency-simultaneity paradox : Heinlein's rewriting of The time machine in "By his bootstraps" / Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser -- A revision and a gloss : Michael Bishop's postmodern interrogation of H. G. Wells's The time machine / David Leone Higdon -- Doomed formicary versus the technological sublime / Brain W. Aldiss -- Afterword : in the company of the immortals / Patrick Parrinder.
ISBN:
9780820322902
0820322903
OCLC:
(OCoLC)46353408
LCCN:
2001023531
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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