NEW BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON H. G. WELLS
COMPILED BY MEGHAN R. GLASS
Atwood, Margaret, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (New York:
Talese, 2011).
Borden, Rebecca, Making Meaning Together: Information, Rumor, and Propaganda
in British Literature of the First World War (Dissertation: University of Maryland,
2012)
< http://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/12756>.
Choi, Yoonjoung, ‘The Bi-Cycling Mr Hoopdriver: Counter-Sporting Victorian
Reviving the Carnivalesque’, Critical Survey, 24 (2012), 102-15.
Cook, Daniel, ‘Utopia from the Rooftops: H. G. Wells, Modernism and the
Panorama-City’, in Utopian Spaces of Modernism: British Literature and Culture,
1885-1945, ed. Rosalyn Gregory and Benjamin Kohlmann (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2012), 105-20.
Crossley, Robert, Imagining Mars: A Literary History (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 2011).
Diment, Galya, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel
Koteliansky (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011).
Domínguez, Chaparro and María Angeles, ‘La huella de la sociedad Victoriana en
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) y The Island of Lost Souls (1932)’, Espéculo:
Revista de Estudios Literarios, 48 (2011), n.p.
Ege, Sema E., ‘Doris Lessing and H. G. Wells, the Time Travellers, the Historians
of the Future’, in IDEA: Studies in English, ed. Evrim Doğan Adanur (Newcastle:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 87-98.
Fokkema, Douwe, Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West
(Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012).
Franza, Mariateresa, ‘A “Single Sitting” Story: H. G. Wells’s “The New
Accelerator”’, in Time and the Short Story, ed. Maria Teresa Chialant and Marina
Lops (Bern: Peter Lang, 2012), 169-80.
Fulford, Robert, ‘H. G. Wells and the Wages of Adultery’, Queen’s Quarterly, 118
(2011), 166-74.
Glenn, Joshua, ‘Science Fiction: The Radium Age’, Nature, 489 (2012), 204-5.
Griffiths, Gareth, ‘Getting to Grips with Griffins: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
(1895) and The Invisible Man (1897)’, Cadair Griffin Blog, February 2010
< http://cadairgriffin.blogspot.co.uk/2010_02_01_archive.html>
Hayes, Joy Elizabeth, ‘Exchange and Interconnection in US Network Radio: A
Reinterpretation of the 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast’, Radio Journal:
International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 9 (2011), 51-62.
Heinze, Rüdiger, ‘Temporal Tourism: Time Travel and Counterfactuality in
Literature and Film’, in Counterfactual Thinking-Counterfactual Writing, ed.
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Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter, and Tilmann Köppe (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011),
212-26.
Hendrix, Howard V., ‘Beyond Goldilocks and Matthew Arnold: Interplanetary
Triage, Extremophilia, and the Outer Limits of Life in the Inner Solar System’, in
Visions of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science, ed. Howard V.
Hendrix, George Slusser, and Eric S. Rabkin (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011),
175-84.
Huntington, John W., ‘The (In)Significance of Mars in the 1930s’, in Visions of
Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science, ed. Howard V. Hendrix,
George Slusser, and Eric S. Rabkin (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 80-5.
Jackson, Paul, Great War Modernisms and ‘The New Age’ Magazine (London:
Continuum, 2012).
James, Simon J., ‘H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the End of Literature’, in
The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures, ed.
Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), 113-23.
−, Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity, & the End of Culture (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012).
Lampadius, Stefan, ‘The World State as a Superhuman Organism, from H. G. Wells
to Aldous Huxley’, in Culture and Biology: Perspectives on the European Modern
Age, ed. Richard Nate and Bea Klüsener (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen &
Neumann, 2011), 257-76.
Leonard, Diane R., ‘Proust in the Fourth Dimension,’ in Au seuil de la modernité:
Proust, Literature and the Arts: Essays in Memory of Richard Bales, ed. Nigel
Harkness and Marion Schmid (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011), 165-78.
Lloyd, Christopher, ‘Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the
Fin-de-siècle to the Present’, in The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin
in European Cultures, ed. Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2011) 185-199.
Mays, Kelly, ‘Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The Victorians in the
Rearview Mirror of Future History’, Victorian Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal of Social, Political, and Cultural Studies, 53 (2011), 445-56.
Maxwell, Anne, ‘“Becoming Martianized”: Liberal Eugenics and H. G. Wells’s
Star-Begotten’, English Studies, 93 (2012), 683-99.
McLean, Steven, ‘The First Men in the Moon’, in The Literary Encyclopedia. June
2012 <http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=849>
Nate, Richard, ‘Beautiful People: Eugenische Experimente in der englischen Utopie
der Moderne’, in ‘Es ist ein Laboratorium, ein Laboritorium für Worte’:
Experiment und Literatur III: 1890-2010, ed. Michael Bies and Michael Gamper
(Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011), 50-71.
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−, ‘“The Incompatibility I Could Not Resolve”: Ambivalence in H. G. Wells’s A
Modern Utopia’, in Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts, ed. Miguel A.
Ramiro Avilés and J. C. Davis (London: Bloomsbury, 2012), 127-32.
Oberhelman, David, ‘Out of the Unknown Past into the Unknown Future’, in
Presentations of the 2010 Upstate Steampunk Extravaganza and Meetup, ed.
Gypsey Elaine Teague (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), 33-44.
Page, Michael R., The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H. G. Wells:
Science, Evolution, and Ecology (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012).
Pak, Chris, ‘“A Fantastic Reflex of Itself, An Echo, A Symbol, A Myth, A Crazy
Dream”: Terraforming as Landscaping Nature’s Otherness in H. G. Wells’s The
Shape of Things to Come and Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men and Star
Maker’, International Review of Science Fiction, 40 (2011), 14-31.
Parrinder, Patrick, ‘H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and Franz Kafka’s “Die
Verwandlung”: Variations on the Bug-Eyed Monster’, Hungarian Journal of
English and American Studies, 18.1-2 (2012), 121-32.
−, ‘The Earth is my Footstool: Wells, Stapledon and the Idea of the Post-Human’,
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 65 (2012), 20-24.
Partington, John S., ‘H. G. Wells and Population Control: From a Eugenic Public
Policy to the Eugenics of Personal Choice’, in Culture and Biology: Perspectives
on the European Modern Age, ed. Richard Nate and Bea Klüsener (Würzburg:
Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2011), 171-90.
Pintér, Károly, ‘The Analogical Alien: Constructing and Construing Extraterrestrial
Invasion in Wells’s The War of the Worlds’, Hungarian Journal of English and
American Studies, 18 (2012), 133-49.
St. Clair, Justin, ‘Borrowed Time: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and the
Victorian Fourth Dimension’, Science Fiction Studies, 38 (2011) 46-66.
Sánchez, Germán J., ‘Elois y Morlocks: Darwin y la máquina del tiempo: Wells y
Mendizábal, visiones contrapuestas de una evolución imaginada’, Espéculo:
Revista de Estudios Literarios, 48 (2011), n.p.
Slusser, George, ‘The Martians Among Us: Wells and the Strugatskys‘, in Visions
of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science, ed. Howard V. Hendrix,
George Slusser, and Eric S. Rabkin (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 56-72.
Smith, David C., The Journalism of H. G. Wells: An Annotated Bibliography, ed.
Patrick Parrinder (Haren: Equilibris, 2012).
Somos, Mark, ‘A Century of “Hate and Coarse Thinking”: Anti-Machiavellian
Machiavellism in H. G. Wells’s The New Machiavelli (1911)’, History of
European Ideas, 37 (2011), 137-52.
Vaninskaya, Anna, ‘The Political Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell‘, in The
Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr. Miniver Read, ed. Kate Macdonald
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 162-76.
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