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Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene
This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.
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Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene
This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.
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Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene

by L. Dryden
Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene

Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene

by L. Dryden

Overview

This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an overview of the literary scene in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349505425
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2015
Edition description: 1st ed. 2015
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda Dryden is Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, and Director of the University's Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW). She is author of two monographs, Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance, and The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells, and co-editor of Stevenson and Conrad: Writers of Transition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Martians, Sleepers, Time Travellers and Hearts of Darkness 2. Conrad, Wells, Ford and the Ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson 3. Quap, Ivory, and Insect Empires 4. 'The difference between us': Science, Politics and the Human Factor 5. Conrad, Wells, and the Art of the Novel 6. The Shape of War and of Things to Come Afterword Bibliography Index
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