Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic
Despite their growing importance in Victorian society, machines are underrepresented in ‘industrial’ or ‘social problem’ fiction. H. G. Wells’s short stories and novellas of the 1890s are a notable exception. While ‘The Cone’ is indebted to the mid-Victorian (cautionary) tradition and especially to...
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Main Author: | Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2018-06-01
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Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/3536 |
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