Essays about: "h.g.wells"

Found 5 essays containing the word h.g.wells.

  1. 1. She Can Go Where She Will : Representations of Female Bicyclists in Late 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Literature by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Anna Gustafsson; [2024]
    Keywords : bicycling women characters; late 19th-century and early 20th-century British and American literature; freedom; emancipation; feminism; gender; the New Woman; cyklande kvinnliga karaktärer; sen 1800-tals- och tidig 1900-talslitteratur från Storbritannien och USA; frihet; frigörelse; feminism; genus; the New Woman;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate how representations of bicycling women in literary works by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell express mental and physical freedoms that had previously been denied women due to archaic societal norms. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Maja Loberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Future of Society: Dystopian and Utopian - Aspects in H.G. Wells’ "The Time Machine and Men Like Gods"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jonas Wackfelt; [2013-03-20]
    Keywords : dystopian aspects; utopian aspects; The Time Machine; Men Like Gods;

    Abstract : My essay will discuss the subject of dystopia and utopia in two selected works by H.G. Wells. I will show that both novels reflect the changing discourse of the time in which they were written, and will argue that the author changes large parts of his philosophy and his way of writing after World War One. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Fear of the Fall: Degeneration and Social Inequality in the Frame Narrative of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sissel Hanström; [2013]
    Keywords : Degeneration; time travel; H.G. Wells; frame narrative; social difference; The Time Machine; Victorian society;

    Abstract : H. G Wells’s novel The Time Machine is a significant work of science fiction that dramatizes the themes of degeneration and social inequality, themes that were very relevant during the Victorian era in relation to the discovery of evolution. READ MORE

  6. 5. I Have Dreamed a Dream... : An Analysis of H.G. Wells' Short Stories "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland", "The Door in the Wall" and "A Dream of Armageddon"

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur

    Author : Lars Wallner; [2008]
    Keywords : h.g. wells; science fiction; fantasy; mr skelmersdale in fairyland; the door in the wall; a dream of armageddon; dream;

    Abstract : "I Have Dreamed a Dream..." is an analysis of the three short stories "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland", "The Door in the Wall" and "A Dream of Armageddon" by H. READ MORE