ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hot Air Balloon, Adventurequest, Scientific Romance
3 Feb 2017
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Wells (1866 1946: from working class, access to advanced education reserved to those with money, father ran shop, but wasn"t very good. Wanted to get rid of this idea: becomes important going into 20th century, worked with british government on the league of nations. Eventually became a critic of it: advocated for the original un. The time machine (1895: establishes wells as a writer, also wrote the island of dr. roe", the invisible man, war of the. Worlds" and last man on the moon": wrote short stories and journalism as well, ttm was scientific romance, adventure/quest > going out into the world to achieve something, addresses socialist issues (rise and fall of communist countries) Time and space (7: space is known (no sense of new frontiers, british empire is reaching vastest extent (time, should think of space as socially constructed (not stable) The idea that some people just wont make it is just the way things are.
