Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris: Landscape and Space 1st Edition Emelyne Godfrey (Eds.)

1. Introduction: Tomatoes and Cucumbers

2. Setting the Scene

1. Time as a Kind of Space

3. Imaginary Hindsight: Contemporary History in William Morris and H.G. Wells

4. Quivers of Idiosyncrasy: Modern Statistics in A Modern Utopia

5. ‘All Good Earthly Things are in Utopia Also’: Familiarity and Irony in the Better Worlds of Morris and Wells

2. Matters Out of Place: Danger and Disruption in Utopia

6. Problems in Utopia from the Thames Valley to the Pacific Edge

7. Utopia’s the Thing: An Analysis of Utopian Programme and Impulse in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau

8. ‘Great Safe Places Down Deep’: Subterranean Spaces in the Early Novels of H. G. Wells

3. Distorted Realities, Shattered Perspectives

9. The Urban Wasteland in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds

10. An Epistemological Journey: The Uncertainty of Construed Realities in The Time Machine

4. Unnatural Theologies in the Island

11. Dark Artistry in The Island of Doctor Moreau

12. Punishment, Purgatory, and Paradise: Hating the Sin, and Sometimes the Sinner, in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Invisible Man

13. Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island: The Novel as Fable

5. Building the Future

14. ‘Flowers and a Landscape were the Only Attractions Here’: The England of Wells and Morris in Aldous Huxley’s Interpretation

15. Modernist Ideals: The Utopian Designs of William Morris, Peter Behrens and the Social Housing Sch