Steven McLean
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The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 52 Exemplare
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What you get from all this is a very solid monograph, one that shows how Wells was interested in what science could say about society: whether society was evolving (and how), how science could be used to shape a better society, what role scientists had to play in society, could eugenics improve society, what did evolution have to do with imperialism, and so on. This is a set of well-articulated perspectives on six H. G. Wells novels, the kind of thing that can be a very helpful grounding when you go off to write about those novels yourself. I should cite it more!… (mehr)