ENG 503 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Peter Chalmers Mitchell, Terra Incognita, Plastic Surgery
12 Feb 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
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.
