H. G. Wells, Leon Stover

The Invisible Man

A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

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Produktbeschreibung

H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue--"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"--has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific elements of the novel? Or is it a part of the work's political underpinnings? The 1897 New York first edition (the first edition to incorporate the epilogue) is used here as the basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world's foremost Wellsian scholar. The introduction examines in great detail the novel's position in the Wellsian canon and sets the major themes in context with the literary conventions used in his other works, particularly the scientific romances.

Produktdetails

• The Annotated H.G. Wells Nr.3
• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780786468713
• ISBN-10: 0786468718
• Artikelnr.: 35937142

Autorenporträt

About the editor: Poul Houe is Professor Emeritus of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction     
1. The Text     
2. Science Fiction     
3. Socialism     
4. "Dialectic of Human Destiny"     
5. Invisibility     
6. "The Cramped Village"     
7. Laboratory Ethics     
8. "Holy Terror"     
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897)     
(Annotated text of the first New York edition)     
Appendices
I. Review of The Invisible Man in The Spectator (1897)     
II. Review of The Invisible Man by Arnold Bennett (1897)     
III. Sergei Nechaev, "The Revolutionary Catechism" (1869), Section 1     
IV. T.H. Huxley, "Science and Culture" (1880), Excerpt     
V. Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, "The Sphinx" (1843)     
Bibliography     
Index