دانلود کتاب Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space

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Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Tomatoes and Cucumbers....Pages 1-32
Setting the Scene....Pages 33-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Imaginary Hindsight: Contemporary History in William Morris and H.G. Wells....Pages 43-56
Quivers of Idiosyncrasy: Modern Statistics in A Modern Utopia ....Pages 57-73
‘All Good Earthly Things are in Utopia Also’: Familiarity and Irony in the Better Worlds of Morris and Wells....Pages 75-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Problems in Utopia from the Thames Valley to the Pacific Edge....Pages 91-105
Utopia’s the Thing: An Analysis of Utopian Programme and Impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau ....Pages 107-121
‘Great Safe Places Down Deep’: Subterranean Spaces in the Early Novels of H. G. Wells....Pages 123-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Urban Wasteland in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds ....Pages 141-156
An Epistemological Journey: The Uncertainty of Construed Realities in The Time Machine ....Pages 157-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Dark Artistry in The Island of Doctor Moreau ....Pages 175-187
Punishment, Purgatory, and Paradise: Hating the Sin, and Sometimes the Sinner, in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man ....Pages 189-207
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island: The Novel as Fable....Pages 209-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
‘Flowers and a Landscape were the Only Attractions Here’: The England of Wells and Morris in Aldous Huxley’s Interpretation....Pages 223-239
Modernist Ideals: The Utopian Designs of William Morris, Peter Behrens and the Social Housing Schemes of Mid-Twentieth-Century Sheffield....Pages 241-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-282