ENG 503 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Peter Chalmers Mitchell, Terra Incognita, Plastic Surgery
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His colleague on the saturday review, sir peter chalmers mitchell (a zoologist and member of the royal. Eng 503 week 2: owes debt to shelley"s frankenstein where science and fantasy join, sensation story spinner, noted the book for religious qualities, this review didn"t dismiss him as a writer of shilling shockers. In a letter to a friend, the book was full of youthful blasphemy . Don"t think too much of yourself just because you have tools. Wells" sympathies are those of a lower class outsider. His ideas are coming out at a time when darwin"s ideas are just being disseminated widely. He"s writing something new for a market that isn"t ready for his work, so there"s much criticism. The wilde trials form one aspect of the text"s narrative background: wells is on wilde"s side and suspicious of a london literary world that didn"t rally to wilde"s defense. Evolution isn"t a sure bet for progress/the better.