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Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler , 2017
In two of Wells’s early novels, The Wheels of Chance (1896) and The War of the Worlds (1898), we ... more In two of Wells’s early novels, The Wheels of Chance (1896) and The War of the Worlds (1898), we see Wells coming to terms with the New Woman movement that was forming around him. I argue that this struggle manifests itself most strikingly in the development of two of his earliest female characters: Miss Elphinstone (in The War of the Worlds) and Jessie Milton (in The Wheels of Chance). This essay examines the ways in which Jessie Milton represents Wells’s first attempt at portraying a New Woman in his oeuvre. Then the essay draws upon notable differences between Jessie and Miss Elphinstone to argue that, although Miss Elphinstone appears far less frequently in her novel than Jessie does in hers, the former is still a more interesting and a more positive representation of the New Woman. In sum, this essay explores how Miss Elphinstone and Jessie Milton demonstrate Wells’s shifting aesthetic and political attitudes towards the late-Victorian New Woman.
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has a palpable love for all things Wells and this love shines through the pages of his book The M... more has a palpable love for all things Wells and this love shines through the pages of his book The Massacre of Mankind, the long awaiting sequel to The War of the Worlds. It is clear from the opening sentences that Baxter has done his research well and those in this particular discourse community will undoubtedly feel the emotional effects of this research when reading Baxter's homage to Wells. Indeed, upon reading Baxter's introductory line, '[t]o those of us who survived it, the First Martian War of the early twentieth century was a cataclysm' (3), Wellsian scholars know they are in familiar territory.
While this collection is certainly not the first to address the bicycle and its significance in l... more While this collection is certainly not the first to address the bicycle and its significance in literature and screen, it is, as the editors state, "the first sustained examination to date" of such a vast project (9). Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea undertake the mammoth task of incorporating several countries and over a century of history to declare that the bicycle is indeed more than just
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler , 2017
In two of Wells’s early novels, The Wheels of Chance (1896) and The War of the Worlds (1898), we ... more In two of Wells’s early novels, The Wheels of Chance (1896) and The War of the Worlds (1898), we see Wells coming to terms with the New Woman movement that was forming around him. I argue that this struggle manifests itself most strikingly in the development of two of his earliest female characters: Miss Elphinstone (in The War of the Worlds) and Jessie Milton (in The Wheels of Chance). This essay examines the ways in which Jessie Milton represents Wells’s first attempt at portraying a New Woman in his oeuvre. Then the essay draws upon notable differences between Jessie and Miss Elphinstone to argue that, although Miss Elphinstone appears far less frequently in her novel than Jessie does in hers, the former is still a more interesting and a more positive representation of the New Woman. In sum, this essay explores how Miss Elphinstone and Jessie Milton demonstrate Wells’s shifting aesthetic and political attitudes towards the late-Victorian New Woman.
has a palpable love for all things Wells and this love shines through the pages of his book The M... more has a palpable love for all things Wells and this love shines through the pages of his book The Massacre of Mankind, the long awaiting sequel to The War of the Worlds. It is clear from the opening sentences that Baxter has done his research well and those in this particular discourse community will undoubtedly feel the emotional effects of this research when reading Baxter's homage to Wells. Indeed, upon reading Baxter's introductory line, '[t]o those of us who survived it, the First Martian War of the early twentieth century was a cataclysm' (3), Wellsian scholars know they are in familiar territory.
While this collection is certainly not the first to address the bicycle and its significance in l... more While this collection is certainly not the first to address the bicycle and its significance in literature and screen, it is, as the editors state, "the first sustained examination to date" of such a vast project (9). Jeremy Withers and Daniel Shea undertake the mammoth task of incorporating several countries and over a century of history to declare that the bicycle is indeed more than just