Shadows of the Future: H.G.Wells, Science Fiction and Prophesy (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)
ISBN-13:
9780853234395
ISBN-10:
0853234396
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Patrick Parrinder
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780853234395
ISBN-10:
0853234396
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Patrick Parrinder
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Format:
Hardcover
224 pages
Summary
Shadows of the Future: H.G.Wells, Science Fiction and Prophesy (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) (ISBN-13: 9780853234395 and ISBN-10: 0853234396), written by authors
Patrick Parrinder, was published by Liverpool University Press in 1995.
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In Shadows of the Future Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championship of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. Professor Parrinder explores the connections between novelty and repetition, between imagining the future and imagining the past, and between prophecy and parody as literary modes. Wells's science fiction is reexamined both as a projection of the cosmology implicit in the writings of Darwin and Huxley, and as a new variation on the Romantic and Enlightenment themes of such earlier authors as Blake, Gibbon, and Mary Shelley. Later chapters relate Wells's fiction to his nonfiction and look at the uneasy relationship of his utopianism to literary prophecy, and at the paradoxes inherent in the militant internationalism of the "prophet at large." Finally, Wells's influence is traced in a study of the antiutopian fictions of Zamyatin and Orwell, and in a broad account of the connections between science fiction and the scientific outlook down to our own time.
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