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Critical Insights: H. G. Wells

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Darren Harris-Fain




The History of H. G. Wells: An Outline, Darren Harris-Fain




Biography of H. G. Wells, Kailey Hill




Critical Contexts



The Evolution of H. G. Wells: A Scientific and Storytelling Mind in Late-Victorian England, Annie Murray


The Genius and the Blasphemer: Critical Reception of H. G. Wells’s Early Scientific Romances, Anna Orlofsky


Twenty-First Century Criticism of H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, Robert C. Evans


Love, War, and Literature: H. G. Wells’s Mr. Britling Sees It Through and Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier, Joyce E. Kelley


Critical Readings



Discovery, Evolution, Animals, and Humanity in H. G. Wells’s Fiction, Eric J. Sterling


Borrowed Shadows: H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man, Nicole Lobdell


“This World of Men”: A Valedictory to Youth in H. G. Wells’s “Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland,” Terry W. Thompson


The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth: H. G. Wells’s Tragicomic Ode to “Bigness,” Michael A. Cramer


H. G. Wells and Modernism, Darren Harris-Fain


Flow, Jigsaws, and Conspiracy: The World of William Clissold, Nicolas Tredell


Rereading The Shape of Things to Come in an Age of Strongmen, Leigh Grossman


Adapt or Perish: Cautionary Lessons in Film Adaptations of The Invisible Man and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Valerie Guyant


Early Reviews of the 1953 Film of H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, Robert C. Evans


Resources



Chronology of H. G. Wells’s Life


Works by H. G. Wells


Bibliography


About the Editor


Contributors