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Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells

The Fin-de-Siècle Literary Scene

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  • © 2015

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  1. Linda Dryden

    1. Edinburgh Napier University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 1-9

  3. Martians, Sleepers, Time Travellers and Hearts of Darkness

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 10-38

  4. Conrad, Wells, Ford and the Ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 39-68

  5. Quap, Ivory and Insect Empires

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 69-94

  6. ‘The difference between us’: Science, Politics and the Human Factor

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 95-130

  7. Conrad, Wells and the Art of the Novel

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 131-168

  8. The Shape of War and of Things to Come

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 169-194

  9. Afterword

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 195-197

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 198-216
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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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“Dryden’s thoroughly researched monograph contains a very systematically organized and impressive bulk of data on the two turn-of-the-century writers’ relationship, and she advances her argument in a clear, reader-friendly style. … researchers looking for intersections of the two authors’ art, which have a great potential for fruitful inter-textual analysis, will probably find Dryden’s volume most helpful.” (Angelika Reichmann, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 22 (2), Fall, 2016)

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  • Edinburgh Napier University, UK

    Linda Dryden

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.

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