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H.G. Well'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.
Van Pelt Library PR5774.T53 H4 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Time machine--Congresses.
- Wells, H. G.
- Literature and science--England--History--20th century--Congresses.
- Literature and science.
- Science fiction, English--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Science fiction, English.
- Time travel in literature--Congresses.
- Time travel in literature.
- History.
- England.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 216 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Time Machine's Centennial Audience / George Slusser, Daniele Chatelain xi
- Part 1 Eternal Readability: A Work for All Time
- The Time Machine as a First Novel: Myth and Allegory in Wells's Romance / J. R. Hammond 3
- Taking It as a Story: The Beautiful Lie of The Time Machine / Robert Crossley 12
- Was the Time Machine Necessary? / Paul Alkon 27
- The Rebirth of a Scientific Intelligence: Or, From "Traveller" to "Travailer" in The Time Machine / Frank Scafella 39
- Time Before and After The Time Machine / W. M. S. Russell 50
- Part 2 Currents of Its Time: Neoteny, Anthropology, Society, Numerology, Imperiality
- Wells and Neoteny / Kirby Farrell 65
- The Time Machine and Victorian Mythology / Sylvia Hardy 76
- The Time Machine and Well's Social Trajectory / John Huntington 97
- From Rome to Richmond: Wells, Universal History, and Prophetic Time / Patrick Parrinder 110
- Change in the City: The Time Traveller's London and the "Baseless Fabric" of His Vision / Carlo Pagetti 122
- Part 3 The Rewriting: The Time Machine in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
- Time at the End of Its Tether: H. G. Wells and the Subversion of Master Narrative / Larry W. Caldwell 137
- The Legacy of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine: Destabilization and Observation / Joshua Stein 150
- Wells and the Sequency-Simultaneity Paradox: Heinlein's Rewriting of The Time Machine in "By His Bootstraps" / Daniele Chatelain, George Slusser 160
- A Revision and a Gloss: Michael Bishop's Postmodern Interrogation of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine / David Leon Higdon 176
- Doomed Formicary versus the Technological Sublime / Brian W. Aldiss 188
- Afterword: In the Company of the Immortals / Patrick Parrinder 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820322903
- OCLC:
- 46353408
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