The First Men in the Moon : A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices (The Annotated H.G. Wells)

Wells, H.G.

McFarland & Co Inc（2012/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 333 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786468744
• DDC分類 FIC

Full Description

The First Men in the Moon is the last in a series of "scientific romances" begun by Wells with The Time Machine. In the opinion of many, it is also the last in a series of pessimistic and anti-utopian novels before Wells took up the tone of an optimistic and utopian social prophet with Anticipations. The present critical edition of First Men questions that opinion. The lunar utopia described is far from a satire on the industrial order as many critics claim, but in historical context is instead related to the international scientific management movement, stemming from the Saint-Simonian school of socialism. This critical edition shows how First Men consciously builds on the whole literary tradition of moon voyages.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

Introduction     

1. The Text     

2. Utopia or Dystopia?     

3. "World Machine"     

4. Verne and Wells     

5. Noble Formicary     

6. Coal City     

7. Managerial Revolution     

The First Men in the Moon (1901)     

(Annotated text of the first London edition)     

Appendices

I. Review by Arnold Bennett (1902)     

II. "An Age of Specialisation," by H.G. Wells (1904a)     

III. "About Sir Thomas More," by H.G. Wells (1905d)     

IV. Verne on Wells and Vice Versa     

V. "Is the Moon Inhabited?" by Camille Flammarion (1894)     

VI. Excerpt from "Recent Studies in Gravitation," by John H. Poynting (1900)     

Bibliography     

Index