ENGL 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Freethought, Frame Story, Northrop Frye
30 Nov 2015
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The time machine looks like a cross between a bicycle and a watch: g. wells. Father: joseph wells was a former gardener, pro cricketer, and coach, and mother sarah was a domestic servant. A leg injury forced joseph to give up cricket, pushing young herbert out of school and into the workforce experience he despised. At his mother"s behest, wells was apprenticed to a draper for two years an. Upon returning to school, he earned a scholarship to the normal school of. Wells learned evolutionary theory from huxley, who was known as darwin"s. Wells became deeply fascinated with the idea of life as an evolutionary. Wells was also fascinated by the emergence of theories and mathematical formulations of higher dimensions. On jan 14, 1887, he hears e. a. hamilton-gordon deliver a paper on the. This paper allegedly furnished wells with the central idea of the time machine, though hamilton-gordon argued that time could not be the 4th dimension.
