The island of Doctor Moreau / H.G. Wells ; edited by Mason Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.

Contributor:

Harris, Mason.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Broadview editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal experimentation--Fiction.

Animal experimentation.

Shipwreck survival--Fiction.

Shipwreck survival.

Islands--Fiction.

Islands.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ont. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Broadview Press, [2009]

Summary:

Synopsis: The author of The Time Machine and War of the World conjures up an island where a mad doctor experiments with turning animals into grotesque human-like creatures. The island is discovered by survivors of a South Pacific shipwreck. Read the prescient 1896 story as a social satire and as a foreshadow of science-to-come such as gene-splicing and bioengineering.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

HG Wells: a brief chronology

Note on the text

Island of Doctor Moreau

Appendix A: Wells on Wells

Appendix B: Wells on Moreau and science fiction

1: Romance of the Scientist: an interview with Mr HG Wells (1897) / Arthur H Lawrence

2: Works of HG Wells, volume 2 (1924) / HG Wells

3: Scientific Romances of HG Wells (1933) / HG Wells

Appendix C: Contemporary reviews

1: Saturday Review (11 April 1896) / Chalmers Mitchell

2: Saturday review (1 November 1896) /Letter from HG Wells replying to Chalmers Mitchell

3: Spectator (11 April 1896) / RH Hutton

4: Manchester Guardian (14 April 1896)

5: Guardian (3 June 1896)

6: Times (17 June 1896)

7: Review of Reviews (July-December 1895)

Appendix D: Evolution and struggle I: Classical Darwinism

1: Memoriam (1850) / Alfred Tennyson

2: Origin of Species (1859-1872) / Charles Darwin

3: Man's Place in Nature (1863) / Thomas H Huxley

4: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin

Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) / Charles Darwin

6: Text-Book of Biology (1893) / HG Wells

7: Rediscovery of the Unique (1891) / HG Wells

Mind in Animals / HG Wells

Appendix E: Evolution and Struggle II: later Huxley and Wells

1: Struggle for Existence in Human Society (February 1888) / Thomas H Huxley

2: Apologetic Irenicon (November 1892) / Thomas H Huxley

Evolution and Ethics (1893, 1894) / Thomas H Huxley

4: Bio-Optimism (29 August 1895) / HG Wells

Human Evolution, an Artificial Process (October 1896) / HG Wells

6: Acquired Factor (9 January 1897) / HG Wells

7: Morals and civilization (February 1897) . HG Wells

8: Human Evolution: Mr Wells replies (April1897) / HG Wells

Appendix F: Degeneration and Madness

Decent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin

Problem of the Birth Supply (1903) / FH Wells

3: Modern Utopia (1905) / HG Wells

4: Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso (1911) / Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

5: Crime: Its Causes and Remedies (1899) / Cesare Lombroso

6: Psychology: The Briefer Course (1892) / William James

7: La Psycholgie Morbide (1859) / Jacques-Joseph Moreau

8: Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895,1896) / Gustave Le Bon

9: Croquet Player (1936) / HG Wells

Appendix G: Vivisection Controversy

1: Report on the Progress and Development of General Physiology in France (1867) / Claude Bernard

2: Claude Bernard (1899) / Michael Foster

3: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) / Claude Bernard

Spectator (1875) / George Hoggan (and RH Hutton), Letter

5: Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes (1876) / RH Hutton's Testimony in

6: Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes (1876) / Dr Emanuel Klein's Testimony

7: Life of Frances Power Cobbe by Herself (1894) / Frances Power Cobbe

8: Test-Book of Biology (1893) / HG Wells

9: Popular Feelings and the Advancement of Science Anti-Vivisection (1928) / HG Wells

Appendix H: Wells Explains: Two Essays Relating to Moreau's

Argument

1: Province of Pain (February 1894) / HG Wells

2: Limits of Individual Plasticity (19 January 1895) / HG Wells

Appendix I: Terrible Medusa Case: an Historical Source for Prendick's Shipwreck (1818)

Appendix J: Well's First Draft of Moreau

Select bibliography.

Notes:

Cover: photograph of dog training, 1900.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292).

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 502003

ISBN:

9781551113272

1551113279

OCLC:

294885873