Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris : Landscape and Space (Hardcover)

Introduction; Emelyne Godfrey.- SETTING THE SCENE.- Kelmscott House: Threshold to Utopia; Michael Sherborne.- PART I. TIME AS A KIND OF SPACE.- 1. Imaginary Hindsight: Contemporary History in William Morris and H. G. Wells; Helen Kingstone.- 2. 'Quivers of Idiosyncrasy': Modern Statistics in A Modern Utopia; Genie Babb.- 3. 'All Good Earthly Things Are In Utopia Also': Familiarity and Irony in the Better Worlds of Morris and Wells; Ben Carver.- PART II. MATTERS OUT OF PLACE: DANGER AND DISRUPTION IN UTOPIA.- 4. Problems in Utopia from the Thames Valley to the Pacific Edge; Tony Pinkney.- 5. Utopia's the Thing: An Analysis of Utopian Program and Impulse in H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau ; Rhys Williams.- 6. 'Great Safe Places Down Deep': Subterranean Spaces in the Early Novels of H.G. Wells; Catherine Redford.- PART III. DISTORTED REALITIES, SHATTERED PERSPECTIVES.- 7. The Urban Wasteland in H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds ; Vera Benczik.- 8. An Epistemological Journey: the Uncertainty of Construed Realities in The Time Machine ; Karoly Pinter.- PART IV. UNNATURAL THEOLOGIES IN THE ISLAND.- 9. Dark Artistry in The Island of Doctor Moreau ; Sarah Faulkner.- 10. 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 ; Gianluca Guerriero.- 11. Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island: The Novel as Fable; John Hammond.- PART V. BUILDING THE FUTURE.- 12. 'Flowers and a Landscape Were the Only Attractions Here': The England of Wells and Morris in Aldous Huxley's Interpretation; Maxim Shadurski.- 13. Modernist Ideals: The Utopian Designs of William Morris, Peter Behrens, and the Social Housing Schemes in Mid-Twentieth Century Sheffield; Clare Holdstock.- Bibliography.- Index.-