Dr John S. Partington

John S. Partington, ed., The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal (Ashgate, 2011) ISBN 9780754669555

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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912–67) has had an immense impact on popular culture throughout the world. His folk music brought traditional song from the rural communities of the American southwest to the urban American listener and, through the global influence of American culture, to listeners and musicians alike throughout Europe and the Americas. Similarly, his use of music as a medium of social and political protest has created a new strategy for campaigners in many countries. But Guthrie's music was only one aspect of his multifaceted life. His labour-union activism helped embolden the American working class, and united such distinct groups as the rural poor, the urban proletariat, merchant seamen and military draftees, contributing to the general call for workers' rights during the 1930s and 1940s. As well as penning hundreds of songs (both recorded and unrecorded), Guthrie was also a prolific writer of non-sung prose, writing regularly for the American communist press, producing volumes of autobiographical writings and writing hundreds of letters to family, friends and public figures. Furthermore, beyond music Guthrie also expressed his creative talents through his numerous pen-and-ink sketches, a number of paintings and occasional forays into poetry. This collection provides a rigorous examination of Guthrie's cultural significance and an evaluation of both his contemporary and posthumous impact on American culture and international folk-culture. The volume utilizes the rich resources presented by the Woody Guthrie Foundation.

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Table of Contents

John S. Partington, 'Preface'
Jorge Arévalo Mateus, 'Foreword'

Part I: 'All You Can Write Is What You See': Woody Guthrie's Songs as Diagnosis and Cure

Richard Nate, '"Pastures of plenty": Woody Guthrie and the New Deal'
John S. Partington, '"There's a better world a-coming": resolving the tension between the urban and rural visions in the writings of Woody Guthrie'
Will Kaufman, 'Woody Guthrie and the cultural front'
Mark Allan Jackson, 'Playing legend maker: Woody Guthrie's "Jackhammer John"'
Martin Butler, '"Words to shoot back at you": Woody Guthrie's 'war' against German Fascism'

Part II: Creating an Icon: The (Self-)Imaging of Woody Guthrie

Martin Butler, '"Always on the go": the figure of the hobo in the songs and writings of Woody Guthrie'
Jeff Morgan, '"Hard travelin": constructing Woody Guthrie's dust bowl legacy'
Frank Erik Pointner, 'Woody Guthrie, aka "the guy who wrote This Land is Your Land"'

Part III: Partnering and Siring: Woody Guthrie in Comparative Perspective

Ronald D. Cohen, 'Will Geer and Woody Guthrie: a folk music friendship'
Ed Cray, 'The performer and the promoter'
D. A. Carpenter, 'Good man, honest man: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the role of the folk outlaw'

Bibliography
Index

Journal Articles

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The Wellsian, 19 (Winter 1996)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working Class Liberation and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Late-Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’, pp. 12-21.

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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 46 (Octobre 1997)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working-Class Liberation, and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Late-Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’, pp. 167-79.

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The Wellsian, 20 (Winter 1997)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘An Identification of and Suggested Reasons for the Differences between the 1905 H. G. Wells Novel, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, and the 1941 Carol Reed Film, Kipps’, pp. 32-38.

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The Wellsian, 21 (Winter 1998)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘A Comparison of the Representation of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901’, pp. 25-34.

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The Wellsian, 22 (1999)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Thornwood Lodge, Knowl Hill, Berkshire: Home of Isabel Mary Wells, c.1897-1899’, pp. 29-34.

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ACD, 10 (April 2000)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘A Comparison of the Representation of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901’, pp. 42-49.

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Utopian Studies, 11: 2 (2000)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Death of the Static: H. G. Wells and the Kinetic Utopia’, pp. 96-111.

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The Undying Fire, 1 (2002)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Consequences of Mind at the End of Its Tether on Research into H. G. Wells’s Political Thought; or was Wells’s Mind really at the End of Its Tether?’, pp. 76-79.

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Utopian Studies, 13: 1 (2002)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Time Machine and A Modern Utopia: The Static and Kinetic Utopias of the Early H. G. Wells’, pp. 57-68.

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The Undying Fire, 2 (2003)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Seeking Victory from the Jaws of Disaster: H. G. Wells and the Great War’, pp. 65-80.

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Utopian Studies, 14: 1 (2003)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘H. G. Wells’s Eugenic Thinking of the 1930s and 1940s’, pp. 74-81.

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International Relations, 17: 2 (June 2003)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘H. G. Wells and the World State: A Liberal Cosmopolitan in a Totalitarian Age’, pp. 233-46.

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The Journal of Contemporary History, 39: 1 (January 2004)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Pen as Sword: George Orwell, H. G. Wells and Journalistic Parricide’, pp. 45-56.

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The Undying Fire, 4 (2005)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Revising Anticipations: Wells on Race and Class, 1901 to 1905’, pp. 31-44.

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Spaces of Utopia, 3 (Autumn / Winter 2006)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘"There’s a Better World a-Coming": The Urban Collectivism-Rural Individualism of Woody Guthrie’, http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3061.pdf.

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ALSo, 1 (2007)
Includes: John S. Partington’s contribution to ‘Copyright Debate’, ed. R. M. Healey, pp. 57-58 & 61.

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Utopian Studies, 19: 3 (2008)
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘H. G. Wells: A Political Life’, pp. 517-76.

Contributions to Books

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Ian Walton, ed., 1993 Poets (Peterborough: Poetry Now, 1993). ISBN 1857311876.
Includes: John S. Partington, 'Untitled', pp. 84-85.

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Elmar Schenkel and Stefan Welz, eds., Lost Worlds & Mad Elephants: Literature, Science and Technology, 1700-1990 (Glienicke, Berlin, and Cambridge, Mass.: Galda + Wilch, 1999). ISBN 3931397165.
Includes: John S. Partington, 'The First Men in the Moon and the "Corporative State"', pp. 181-93.

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Janet Witalec, ed., Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 133 (Detroit, London and Munich: Thomson Gale, 2003). ISBN 0787663379.
http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/samples/toc63379.pdf
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working-Class Liberation, and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Late-Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’, pp. 329-34.

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Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer, eds., The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (New York and London: Continuum, 2003; rpt. 2006). ISBN 0826414567 (2003) / 0826418392 (2006).
http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Subjects/default.aspx&CountryID=2&ImprintID=2&BookID=116846
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]’, pp. 1035-36.

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Patrick Parrinder and John S. Partington, eds., The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005). ISBN 0826462537. http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Subjects/default.aspx&CountryID=1&ImprintID=3&BookID=123310 .aspx&CountryID=1&ImprintID=3&BookID=123310
Includes: John S. Partington, 'H. G. Wells and the International Pan-European Union', pp. 321-38.

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Gregory Claeys, ed., Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2005). ISBN 0415244196.
http://www.taylorandfrancis.co.uk/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?curTab=DESCRIP TION&id=&parent_id=&sku=&isbn=0415244196&pc=
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)’, pp. 509-13.

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Carl Mitcham, ed.-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, 4 vols. (Detroit, London and Munich: Macmillan Reference, 2005). ISBN 00286583210 (set) / 0028659015 (volume 4).
http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/samples/toc58310.pdf
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Wells, H. G.’, Vol. 4, pp. 2061-62.

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Gary Westfahl, ed., The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, 3 vols. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood, 2005). ISBN 0313329508 (set) / 0313329532 (volume 3).
http://www.greenwood.com/books/printFlyer.aspx?sku=GR2950&loc ation=international
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells (1896)’, vol. 3, pp. 1102-04;
John S. Partington, ‘Things to Come (1936)’, vol. 3, pp. 1296-99;
John S. Partington, ‘The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898)’, vol. 3, pp. 1332-34.

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H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ed. Patrick Parrinder; intro. Michael Foot (London: Penguin, 2005). ISBN 0141439998.
http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,10_9780141439990,00.html
Includes: John S. Partington, 'Notes', pp. 419-70.

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H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution, ed. Patrick Parrinder; intro. John Clute (London: Penguin Classics, 2005). ISBN 0141441046.
http://www.pe/nguinclassics.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,10_9780141441047,00.html
Includes: John S. Partington. 'Notes', pp. 447-530.

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War of the Worlds [1953] (‘The Special Collector’s Edition’), Paramount DVD 2005. ISBN 1-4157-1166-6.
Includes: Interview of John S. Partington in ‘H. G. Wells: The Father of Science Fiction’ (special feature documentary).

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D. W. Pryke, ed., The Legacy of John Lennon in the words of the fans who love him (Liskeard: Exposure, 2005). ISBN 1846850118.

Includes: John S. Partington, '[Untitled]', p. 129.

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Diane Morgan and Gary Banham, eds., Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). ISBN 9780230001527.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=0230001521
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Human Rights and Public Accountability in H. G. Wells’ Functional World State’, pp. 163-90.

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Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson and Paola Spinozzi, eds., Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme (Paris: Champion, 2008). ISBN 9782745317087.
http://www.honorechampion.com/cgi/run?wwfrset+3+0+1+2+cccdegtv1+08531708+1
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Le cycle utopique de H. G. Wells’, pp. 911-22.

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Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, gen. eds., Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (Gent: Academia, and London: British Library, 2009). ISBN 9780712350396 / 9789038213408.
http://publishing.bl.uk/book/dictionary-nineteenth-century-journalism
Includes: J[ohn S.] P[artington], ‘Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946)’, pp. 669-70.

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Gary Westfahl and George Slusser, eds., Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009). ISBN 9780786442973.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4297-3
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘Utopia and Utopianism in the Life, Work, and Thought of H. G. Wells’, pp. 160-69.

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Keith Gildart and David Howell, eds., Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. XIII (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). ISBN 9780230004566. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=275878
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘CUSDEN, (Anne) Phoebe Ellen (née Blackall) (1887-1981)’, pp. 71-84.
John S. Partington, ‘QUELCH, Lorenzo (‘Len’) Edward (1862-1937)’, pp. 319-34.

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Stefan Welz and Fabian Dellemann, eds., Anglosachsen: Leipzig und die englischsprachige Kultur (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010). ISBN 9783631601891
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=260189&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1
Includes: John S. Partington, 'Clara Zetkin's Reception in British Socialism and the British Women's Movement, 1889-1909', pp. 117-37.

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John S. Partington, ed., The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011). ISBN 9780754669555 http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754669555
Includes: John S. Partington, ‘"There’s a Better World a-Coming": Resolving the Tension between the Urban and Rural Visions in the Writings of Woody Guthrie’, pp. 17-33.

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Richard Nate and Bea Klüsener, eds., Culture and Biology: Perspectives on the European Modern Age (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011).
Includes: John S. Partington, 'H. G. Wells and Population Control: From a Eugenic Public Policy to the Eugenics of Personal Choice', pp. 171-190.

Forthcoming:

Gregory Claeys, ed., Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (Washington, DC: CQ Press, [forthcoming]).
Includes: John S. Partington, 'Wells, Herbert George'.

John S. Partington, ed., H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946: A Reception Reader (Peter Lang 2008) ISBN 9783631571101

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Since its foundation in 1869 Nature has consistently been the pre-eminent English-language science journal, and for a period of over fifty years, H. G. Wells was a central feature within its pages. In H. G. Wells in Nature, John S. Partington collects all of Wells's writings in Nature, all of the reviews of his works published by Nature, and all of the journal's reportage that featured him. In addition to this core material, however, Partington has included the many responses that these essays and reviews received, thereby offering the reader a uniquely contectualised history of Wells's reception in Nature.

From the first review Wells received in 1893 to his obituary notice in 1946, this volume presents a fascinating history of Wells's work and thought as filtered through the prism of Nature. During his long career no other journal featured Wells within its pages so consistently, and with contributions by such eminent thinkers as Richard Gregory, E. Ray Lankester, J. S. Haldane, Lancelot Hogben, F. S. Marvin, A. Carr-Saunders, J. B. S. Haldane, Karl Pearson and Hilaire Belloc, Nature can truly be said to have played a key role in moulding opinion about Wells's work and thought. http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=57110&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1&vLang=E

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Table of Contents

Abbreviations

General Introduction and Acknowledgements

Part 1: The Essays, Reviews and Letters by H. G. Wells

1.1 ‘Popularising Science’

1.2 ‘Science, in School and After School’

1.3 ‘Peculiarities of Psychical Research’

1.4 ‘The Sequence of Studies’

1.5 ‘Bio-optimism’

1.6 ‘The Discovery of the Future’

1.7 ‘Education and Research’

1.8 ‘Men of Letters and Science in Russia’

1.9 ‘Scientific Neglect of the Mas d’Azil’

1.10 ‘The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia’

1.11 ‘Biology for the Million’

1.12 ‘The Man of Science as Aristocrat’

1.13 ‘The Illusion of Personality’

Part 2: Reviews of the Works of H. G. Wells

2.1 Text-book of Biology and Text-book of Zoology

2.2 The Time Machine

2.3 ‘Human Evolution, an Artificial Process’

2.4 The War of the Worlds

2.5 The First Men in the Moon

2.6 Anticipations, Mankind in the Making and The Food of the Gods

2.7 A Modern Utopia

2.8 In the Days of the Comet

2.9 The Future in America

2.10 What is Coming?

2.11 The Outline of History and Mr Belloc Objects to ‘The Outline of History’

2.12 The Salvaging of Civilisation

2.13 A Short History of the World

2.14 Men Like Gods

2.15 The Story of a Great Schoolmaster

2.16 The World of William Clissold

2.17 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells

2.18 The Way the World is Going, The Open Conspiracy and What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

2.19 The Science of Life

2.20 The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind

2.21 After Democracy

2.22 The Shape of Things to Come

2.23 Experiment in Autobiography

2.24 The New America: The New World

2.25 Things to Come

2.26 Man Who Could Work Miracles

2.27 Anatomy of Frustration

2.28 Star Begotten

2.29 The Camford Visitation

2.30 World Brain

2.31 The Fate of Homo Sapiens, The New World Order and The Outlook for Homo Sapiens

2.32 Babes in the Darkling Wood

2.33 The Conquest of Time

2.34 Phoenix

2.35 Reshaping Man’s Heritage

2.36 ’42 to ’44

Part 3: Other Mentions

3.1 ‘Science Teaching – an Ideal, and some Realities’ (1894)

3.2 Richard Gregory, from ‘National Aspects of Education’ (1913)

3.3 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the British Science Guild (1917)

3.4 The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the British Science Guild (1922)

3.5 ‘The Duty and Service of Science in the New Era’ (1922)

3.6 Wells as Labour Party Candidate (1922-23)

3.7 ‘Evolution and Intellectual Freedom’ (1925)

3.8 Chair of Social Biology (1930)

3.9 Hyman Levy, ‘Science in Literature’ (1931)

3.10 ‘British-American Understanding’ (1937)

3.11 ‘The Informative Content of Education’ (1937)

3.12 Social Relations of Science (1938)

3.13 Brenda Tripp, ‘Science and the Citizen: The Public Understanding of Science’ (1943)

3.14 Fellowships of Imperial College, London (1943)

3.15 Doctorates of the University of London (1943)

3.16 ‘Thoughts on Reconstruction’ (19 February 1944)

3.17 The Death of H. G. Wells (1946)

Short Biographies

Bibliography

John S. Partington, ed., H. G. Wells's Fin-de-Siècle: Twenty-first Century Reflections on the Early H. G. Wells (Peter Lang 2007) ISBN 9783631571118

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The essays contained in this collection focus on the early H. G. Wells, the scientific romancer, the comic novelist and the young author discovering the literary élite. Written at the crossroads of a new century, the authors of these essays use their own fin-de-siècle experiences to look back one hundred years and critically assess the writings of an earlier fin-de-siècle. With seven chapters dealing with The Time Machine, The Wheels of Chance, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr Polly, readers receive a detailed overview of Wells's literary output between 1895 and 1910. Two further chapters treat Wells's literary friendships, assessing his personal and professional relationships with the Victorian realist, George Gissing, and the pioneering modernist, Joseph Conrad, while the final chapter reveals Wells as a 'time traveller', employing poststructuralist techniques fifty years before that expression was coined. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vSiteName=PDFResult.cfm&vItem=57111&vLang=E

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Table of Contents

John S. Partington, 'Introduction'
Katrina Harack, 'Limning the Impossible: Time Travel, the Uncanny and Destructive Futurity in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine'
Nick Redfern, 'Abjection and Evolution in The Island of Doctor Moreau'
Kimberly Jackson, 'Vivisected Language in H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau'
Brett Davidson, 'The War of the Worlds Considered as a Modern Myth'
Hiroshi So, 'The Wheels of Chance and the Discourse of Improvement of Health'
Barbara Bond, 'H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay as a Reflection of Its Time'
Kevin Swafford, 'Aesthetics, Narrative and the Critique of Respectability in The History of Mr Polly'
Simon J. James, '"The Truth About Gissing": Reassessing the Literary Friendship of George Gissing and H. G. Wells'
Linda Dryden, 'H. G. Wells and Joseph Conrad: A Literary Friendship'
Sylvia Hardy, 'H. G. Wells the Poststructuralist'

Patrick Parrinder and John S. Partington, eds., The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (Thoemmes Continuum 2005) ISBN 0826462537

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H. G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain. This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union.

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Table Of Contents

'Acknowledgements'
'List of Contributors'
'Abbreviations'
Patrick Parrinder and Paul Barnaby, 'Timeline: European Reception of H. G. Wells'
Patrick Parrinder, 'Introduction
Joseph Altairac, 'H. G. Wells's Critical Reception in France'
Annie Escuret, 'Henry-D. Davray and the Mercure de France'
Maria Kozyreva and Vera Shamina, 'Russia Revisited'
Adelaida Lyubimova and Boris Proskurnin, 'H. G. Wells in Russian Literary Criticism, 1890s-1940s'
Roger Cockrell, 'Future Perfect: H. G. Wells and Bolshevik Russia, 1917-32'
Elmar Schenkel, 'White Elephants and Black Machines: H. G. Wells and German Culture, 1920-45'
Richard Nate, 'Ignorance, Opportunism, Propaganda and Dissent: The Reception of H. G. Wells in Nazi Germany'
Andrzej Juszczyk, 'H. G. Wells's Polish Reception'
Juliusz K. Palczewski, 'On Translations of H. G. Wells's Work into Polish'
Bohuslav Mánek, 'A Welcome Guest: the Czech Reception of H. G. Wells'
Gabriella Vöő, 'Critics and Defenders of H. G. Wells in Interwar Hungary'
Katalin Csala, 'The Puzzling Connection between H. G. Wells and Frigyes Karinthy'
Maria Teresa Chialant, 'H. G. Wells, Italian Futurism and Marinetti's Gli Indomabili'
Teresa Iribarren i Donadeu, 'An Approximation of H. G. Wells's Impact on Catalonia'
Alberto Lázaro, 'H. G. Wells and the Discourse of Censorship in Franco's Spain'
José Manuel Mota, 'News from Nowhere: Portuguese Dialogues with H. G. Wells'
Lucian M. Ashworth, 'Clashing Utopias: H. G. Wells and Catholic Ireland'
George Slusser and Danièle Chatelain, 'A Tale of Two Science Fictions: H. G. Wells in France and the Soviet Union'
Nicoletta Vallorani, '"The Invisible Wells" in European Cinema and Television'
John S. Partington, 'H. G. Wells and the International Paneuropean Union'
'Bibliography'
'Index'

John S. Partington, Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H. G. Wells (Ashgate 2003) ISBN 0754633837

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Alongside his reputation as an author, H. G. Wells is also remembered as a leading political commentator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Building Cosmopolis presents the worldview of Wells as developed between his student days at the Normal School of Science (1884-1887) and his death in 1946. During this time, Wells developed a unique political philosophy, grounded on the one hand in the theory of 'Ethical Evolution' as propounded by his professor, T. H. Huxley, and on the other in late Victorian socialism. From this basis Wells developed a worldview which rejected class struggle and nationalism and embraced global co-operation for the maintenance of peace and the advancement of the human species in a world society. Although committed to the idea of a world state, Wells became more antagonistic towards the nation state as a political unit during the carnage of the First World War. He began moving away from the position of an internationalist to one of a cosmopolitan in 1916, and throughout the inter-war period he advanced the notion of regional and, ultimately, functional world government to a greater and greater extent. Wells first demonstrated a functionalist society in Men Like Gods (1923) and further elaborated this system of government in most of his works, both fictional and non-fictional, throughout the rest of his life. Following an examination of the development of his political thought from inception to fruition, this study argues that Wells's political thoughts rank him alongside David Mitrany as one of the two founders of the functionalist school of international relations, an acknowledgement hitherto denied to Wells by scholars of world-government theory. https://www.ashgate.com/pdf/tis/9780754633839.pdf.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Liberal Internationalism, 'Ethical Evolution' and Cosmopolitan Socialism
The Death of the Static: H. G. Wells and the Kinetic Utopia
From 'The Larger Synthesis' to the League of Free Nations
Educational reform from The Outline of History to the 'Permanent World Encyclopaedia'
From the League of Nations to the Functional World State
Human Rights and Public Accountability in the Functional World State
The Forgotten Cosmopolitan: H. G. Wells and Postwar Transnationalism
Postscript: Mind at the End of its Tether?
Bibliography
Index

John S. Partington, ed., The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H. G. Wells (Equilibris 2003) ISBN 9059760018 (HB); 9059760026 (PB)

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H.G. Wells (1866-1946) was a figure of many interests and talents. His writing career spanned an incredible 55 years, and took the form of essays, novels, science fiction, short stories, textbooks, speculative prophecy, utopias, journalism, letters and autobiography. As well as being prolific and varied, Wells has also had a lasting influence on subsequent generations of thinkers and writers, including George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Olaf Stapledon and J. B. Priestley. His influence is felt in the genre of science fiction, in the promotion of human rights and in his ideas on world governance.

In The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H.G. Wells, John S. Partington brings together a selection of the finest articles published in The Wellsian, the journal of the H. G. Wells Society, from 1981 to the present. The volume covers a wide breadth of Wells's work and thought, with essays from Lyman Tower Sargent on utopianism, Patrick Parrinder on The Time Machine, David Lake's textual analysis of the scientific romances, Michael Sherborne on Wells and Plato, and many others. With The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The Sea Lady, The Food of the Gods and The Door in the Wall all receiving detailed attention, this volume promises to be a worthy memorial to the first twenty-five years of The Wellsian. As well as celebrating Wells's greatest literary achievements, it explores the philosophical basis of his thought and, through several comparative studies, takes an interdisciplinary approach to his aesthetic concerns. http://www.equilibris.nl/Wells_press_release.pdf

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Table of Contents

John S. Partington, 'Introduction'
Katalin Csala-Gáti and János I. Tóth, 'The Socio-biological and Human-ecological Notions in The Time Machine'
Patrick Parrinder, 'The Time Machine: H.G. Wells’s Journey Through Death'
John Hammond, 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Swiftian Parable'
Roslynn Haynes, 'The Unholy Alliance of Science in The Island of Doctor Moreau'
Patricia Kerslake, 'Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Kurd Lasswitz and H. G. Wells'
Brett Davidson, 'Wells, the Artilleryman and the Intersection on Putney Hill'
Richard Law, 'The Narrator in Double Exposure in The War of the Worlds'
Leon Stover, 'H. G. Wells and The Sea Lady – A Platonic Affair in the “Great Outside”?'
Bruce Sommerville, 'A Tissue of Moonshine: The Mechanics of Deception in The Sea Lady'
Charles De Paolo, 'H. IV / Somatrem: H. G. Wells’s Speculations upon Endocrinology'
Laura Scuriatti, 'A Tale of Two Cities: H. G. Wells’s The Door in the Wall, Illustrated by Alvin Langdon Coburn'
David Lake, 'The Current Texts of H. G. Wells’s Early Science Fiction Novels: Situation Unsatisfactory'
Michael Sherborne, 'Wells, Plato, and the Ideal State'
Lyman Tower Sargent, 'The Pessimistic Eutopias of H. G. Wells'
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography

Curriculum Vita

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Educational Qualifications

Thames Valley University, Reading, 2010
OCR Breakthrough German, Listening Grade 3 (18 June 2010) and Speaking Grade 3 (12 August 2010)

Thames Valley University, Reading, 2009
OCR Breakthrough German, Listening Grade 1 and Speaking Grade 2 (21 December 2009)

Thames Valley University/Training Employment Advice Shop, Reading, 2006-2007
OCR Level 2 NVQ for IT Users: Word processing, spreadsheets and databases: Pass (5 April 2007)

University of Reading, 1997-2001
PhD English: Pass awarded with no corrections required (6 July 2001)
Thesis Title: ‘Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H. G. Wells’
Supervisor: Prof. Patrick Parrinder
Examiners: Prof. Gregory Claeys (external) and Dr Geoffrey Harvey

University of Leeds, 1996-1997
MA English literature: Pass (June 1997)
Dissertation Title: ‘Science Fiction as Social Comment in The Island of Doctor Moreau and When the Sleeper Wakes’

University of Central Lancashire, 1992-1995
BA History: First Class with Honours (28 June 1995)
Dissertation Title: ‘An Investigation into Anti-war Liberal Dissent during the Great War (1914-1918) and the Political Consequences of that Dissent in Early Postwar Britain (1919-1924)’

Houghton Regis Upper School, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, 1986-1992
A-levels: History, C (1992); Geography, D (1991)
RSA Stage 1: Computer Literacy and Information Technology, Distinction (1991)
GCSEs: Geography, A (1990); Mathematics, C (1990); History, C (1990); English Literature, C (1989); English Language, C (1989); Science 1st Award, C (1989); Science 2nd Award, D (1989); Craft Metal, E (1989)

Additional Training
2 November 1999: ‘Postgraduate Small Group Teaching & Essay Marking’, Centre for Staff Training and Development, University of Reading.
10 October 2000: ‘Professional Teaching Responsibilities for postgraduates new to teaching’, Centre for Staff Training and Development, University of Reading.
17 December 2001: ‘Service for Sales’, Scottish & Newcastle Training Programme, Restaurants & Accommodation Division, Scottish & Newcastle.

Employment History

Network Rail, Reading Depot, 100 Napier Road, Reading RG1 8FJ. (June 2011-present)
Assessment in the Line Coordinator (Maintenance function, Reading Delivery Unit).
I am responsible for arranging the training for all staff at the Reading Delivery Unit, ensuring all front line staff have the requisite competencies to work safely and professionally in their roles.

Network Rail, Reading Depot, Cattle Pens Road, Off Caversham Road, Reading RG1 8AA (April 2010-June 2011)
Commercial Coordintor (Finance function, Reading Delivery Unit).
My primary role is to police all commercial transactions made within the delivery unit, ensuring that orders for goods and services are correctly placed, and authorising payment once received. I work with section managers to drive down costs through more efficient working, as measured by Maintenance Unit Costs. I report on the delivery units financial performance, and work with colleagues throughout the Western Route to share best practice and to ensure one-way-of-working.

Network Rail, Sussex House, 6 The Forbury, Reading RG1 3EJ (February 2009-April 2010)
Road Vehicles Coordinator (National Delivery Service function, Thames Valley Area).
I am responsible for hiring vehicles for the railway infrastructure maintenance workforce, ensuring the vehicles are taxed, have passed their MOT tests and are insured. I also issue Authority to Drive documents, Driver's Handbooks and fuel cards to staff, and ensure that staff have current, clean driving licenses. As a consequence of the financial cost of the road vehicles fleet, I am responsible for reporting costs each month and investigating savings for the company.

Network Rail, Sussex House, 6 The Forbury, Reading RG1 3EJ (April 2007-February 2009)
Controlled Publications Distributor (Maintenance function, Western Route / Head Office).
I was responsible for distributing controlled publications for the railway infrastructure maintenance workforce. These were then signed for by the staff, and I maintained a database and hardcopy filing system of receipts for all issued documents to meet the company's audit requirements.

Waterstone’s Booksellers, 89a Broad Street, Reading RG1 2AP (March 2002-April 2007)
Senior (Grade 4) Bookseller, duty-manager.
I have experience managing many sections of the shop (biography, politics, literature and prose, religion, business, crime and true crime, study guides, etc.), buying stock and organising returns. I was the ‘Academic Champion’, organising academic ordering and negotiating terms with publishers (August-October 2003 and 2004). I was also the shop’s returns manager, working within the sale-or-return industry standard, and negotiating exceptional returns agreements with publishers' representatives. As a senior bookseller, I was also responsible for managing the shop every fourth Sunday and occasional half-days each week.

School of English and American Literature, University of Reading (January 2000-November 2003)
Sessional Lecturer in English.
I taught ‘H. G. Wells and Science Fiction’ on the Master’s course in Victorian Literature and Culture, and team-taught on the undergraduate part-one module, ‘Literature and Criticism’.

School of History, University of Reading (October 2000-March 2003)
Lecturer (0.5) in History.
I designed and taught the undergraduate part-two / three module, ‘Modern American Utopias’, and designed and taught the undergraduate part-one module ‘Approaches to History: The New Machiavelli’ and team-taught on the undergraduate part-one modules ‘Landmarks in History: 1789 & 1945’ and ‘Era of the Two World Wars, 1914-1953’.

Faculty of Education and Care, Reading College (now Thames Valley University) (February 2002-March 2002)
Sessional Lecturer in History.
I taught the GCSE course, ‘The Cold War 1945-1962’, and the A-level course ‘Soviet Foreign Policy 1928-1941’, during a period of sick leave cover.

Manchester Art Galleries, Manchester City Council, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL (June 1995-October 1996).
Gallery Assistant.
I was responsible for patrolling the several city art galleries in Manchester, acting both as security and customer care officer. I also assisted with the assembly of exhibitions, the cleaning of galleries and serving customers in the galleries’ shops.

Awards

12-14 July 2002: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant (supporting my organisation of and attendance at the 'Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe' conference in Leipzig, Germany).
October 1997-September 2000: University of Reading Postgraduate Research Studentship (for the completion of my doctorate).
October 1996-June 1997: British Academy Competition ‘A’ Studentship (for the completion of my Master’s degree).

Membership of Professional Societies

H. G. Wells Society, 1992-Present (Committee Member, 1998-2008)
Society for Utopian Studies, 1999-Present
Manchester Civic Society, 2001-2007
Reading Civic Society, 2006-Present
Trustee of Reading Local History Trust, 2007-2010.

Publications

Monograph
Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H. G. Wells (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003).

Edited Books
The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H. G. Wells ([Oss]: Equilibris, 2003).
The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe (with Patrick Parrinder; London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005).
H. G. Wells’s Fin-de-Siecle: Twenty-first Century Reflections on the Early H. G. Wells. Selections from The Wellsian, 2001-2006 (Berne: Peter Lang, 2007).
H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946: A Reception Reader (Berne: Peter Lang, 2008).
The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011).
David. C. Smith, The Definitive Bibliography of Herbert George Wells, ed. John S. Partington (Haren: Equilibris, [forthcoming]).

Chapters in Edited Books
‘The First Men in the Moon and the "Corporative State"’, in Lost Worlds & Mad Elephants: Literature, Science and Technology 1700-1990, ed. Elmar Schenkel and Stefan Welz (Glienicke, Berlin, and Cambridge, MA: Galda + Wilch, 1999), 181-93.
‘Introduction’, in 'The Wellsian': Selected Essays on H. G. Wells, ed. John S. Partington ([Oss]: Equilibris, 2003), 9-18.
‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working-Class Liberation, and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Late-Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’, in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, volume 133: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers Who Lived between 1900 and 1999, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations, ed. Janet Witalec (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2003), 329-34.
‘H. G. Wells and the International Paneuropean Union’, in The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe, ed. Patrick Parrinder and John S. Partington (London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005), 321-38.
‘Human Rights and Public Accountability in H. G. Wells’s Functional World State’, in Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future, ed. Diane Morgan and Gary Banham (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 163-90.
‘Le cycle utopique de H. G. Wells’, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, ed. Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson and Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, 2008), 911-22.
‘Utopia and Utopianism in the Life, Work, and Thought of H. G. Wells’, in Science Fiction and the Two Cultures, ed. George Slusser and Gary Westfahl (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 169-69.
‘Clara Zetkin’s Reception in British Socialism and the British Women’s Movement, 1889-1909’, in Anglosachsen: Leipzig und die englischsprachige Kultur, ed. Stefan Welz and Fabian Dellemann (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010), 117-37.
‘"There’s a Better World a-Coming": Resolving the Tension between the Urban and Rural Visions in the Writings of Woody Guthrie’, in The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal, ed. John S. Partington (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 17-33.
'H. G. Wells and Population Control: From a Eugenic Public Policy to the Eugenics of Personal Choice', in Culture and Biology: Perspectives on the European Modern Age, ed. Richard Nate and Bea Klüsener (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2011), 171-190.

Refereed Articles
‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working-Class Liberation, and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Late-Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’, Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 46 (Octobre 1997), 167-79.
‘The Death of the Static: H. G. Wells and the Kinetic Utopia’, Utopian Studies, 11: 2 (2000), 96-111.
‘The Consequences of Mind at the End of Its Tether on Research into H. G. Wells’s Political Thought; or was Wells’s Mind really at the End of Its Tether?’ Undying Fire, 1 (2002), 76-79.
‘The Time Machine and A Modern Utopia: The Static and Kinetic Utopias of the Early H. G. Wells’, Utopian Studies, 13: 1 (2002), 57-68.
‘H. G. Wells and the World State: A Liberal Cosmopolitan in a Totalitarian Age’, International Relations, 17: 2 (June 2003), 233-46.
‘Seeking Victory from the Jaws of Disaster: H. G. Wells and the Great War’, Undying Fire, 2 (2003), 65-80.
‘H. G. Wells’s Eugenic Thinking of the 1930s and 1940s’, Utopian Studies, 14: 1 (2003), 74-81.
‘The Pen as Sword: George Orwell, H. G. Wells and Journalistic Parricide’, Journal of Contemporary History, 39: 1 (January 2004), 45-56.
‘Revising Anticipations: Wells on Race and Class, 1901 to 1905’, Undying Fire, 4 (2005), 31-44.
‘"There’s a Better World a-Coming": The Urban Collectivism-Rural Individualism of Woody Guthrie’, Spaces of Utopia, 3 (Autumn / Winter 2006), http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3061.pdf.
'H. G. Wells: A Political Life', Utopian Studies, 19: 3 (2008), 517-76.

Edited Journals
The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society, nos. 22-31 (1999-2008).

Encyclopaedia and Dictionary Entries
‘Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]’, in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer (New York: Continuum, 2003; rpt. 2006), 1035-36.
‘Wells, H. G. (1866-1946)’, in Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 509-13.
‘Wells, H. G.’, in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, 4 vols., ed.-in-chief Carl Mitcham (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2005), IV: 2061-62.
‘The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells (1896)’, in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, 3 vols., ed. Gary Westfahl (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005), III: 1102-04.
‘Things to Come (1936)’, in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, 3 vols., ed. Gary Westfahl (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005), III: 1296-99.
‘The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898)’, in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, 3 vols., ed. Gary Westfahl (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005), III: 1332-34.
‘Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) (1866-1946)’, in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland, ed. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (Gent: Academia, and London: British Library, 2009), 669-70.
‘CUSDEN, (Anne) Phoebe Ellen (née Blackall) (1887-1981)’, in Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. 13, ed. Keith Gildart and David Howell (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 71-84.
‘QUELCH, Lorenzo (‘Len’) Edward (1862-1937)’, in Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol. 13, ed. Keith Gildart and David Howell (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 319-34.
'Wells, Herbert George', in Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys (Washington, DC: CQ Press, [forthcoming]).

Annotated Books
H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli, ed. Simon James (London: Penguin Classics, 2005), my notes appear on pages 419-470.
H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution, ed. Patrick Parrinder (London: Penguin Classics, 2005), my notes appear on pages 447-530.

Filmed Interviews
‘H. G. Wells: The Father of Science Fiction’, special feature on War of the Worlds [1953] (‘The Special Collector’s Edition’), Paramount DVD 2005.

Non-refereed Publications
‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working Class Liberation and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Late-Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’, Wellsian, 19 (Winter 1996), 12-21.
‘An Identification of and Suggested Reasons for the Differences between the 1905 H. G. Wells Novel, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, and the 1941 Carol Reed Film, Kipps’, Wellsian, 20 (Winter 1997), 32-38.
‘A Comparison of the Representation of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901’, Wellsian, 21 (Winter 1998), 25-34.
‘Thornwood Lodge, Knowl Hill, Berkshire: Home of Isabel Mary Wells, c.1897-1899’, Wellsian, 22 (1999), 29-34.
‘A Comparison of the Representation of Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901’, ACD, 10 (April 2000), 42-49.
‘Wells on Film’, Science Fiction Studies, 31: 1 (March 2004),173-74.
H. G. Wells: Things to Come [NFT programme notes] (London: BFI, 2005).
Untitled, in The Legacy of John Lennon in the words of the fans who love him, ed. D. W. Pryke (Liskeard: Exposure, 2005), 129.
The H. G. Wells Society, A Bibliography of Web-based H. G. Wells Resources, [compiled by John S. Partington], H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 10 (Spring 2006), supplement.
‘H. G. Wells, "The Discovery of the Future" and the Cancelled Royal Institution Lecture’, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5. 14 (Summer 2007), [13-16].
Contribution to ‘Copyright Debate’, ed. R. M. Healey, in ALSo, 1 (2007), 56-63 (57-58; 61).
‘The Chronology of H. G. Wells’s The New Machiavelli’, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5. 15 (Autumn 2007), [2-4].
'On the Trail of Clara Zetkin', Counterfire, 16 April 2010, http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/features/75-our-history/4654-on-the-trail-of-clara-zetkin.

Poetry
‘Untitled’, in 1993 Poets, ed. by Ian Walton (Peterborough: Poetry Now, 1993), 84-85.

Book Reviews
Michael Foot, H. G.: The History of Mr Wells, Red Pepper, 33 (February 1997), 26.
Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox, eds., Political Science Fiction, Kritikon Litterarum, 25: 3 / 4 (1998), 157-60.
I. F. Clarke, The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come and The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914: Fictions of Future Warfare and Battles Still-to-come, Kritikon Litterarum, 26: 1 / 2 (1999), 73-75.
J. R. Hammond, An H. G. Wells Chronology, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 4 (Autumn 1999), 6.
Gail Marshall, Actresses on the Victorian Stage: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth, Kritikon Litterarum, 26: 3 / 4 (1999), 156-58.
Jane Eldridge Miller, Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel, Kritikon Litterarum, 26: 3 / 4 (1999), 158-61.
Richard Salmon, Henry James and the Culture of Publicity, Kritikon Litterarum, 26: 3 / 4 (1999), 161-63.
Bonnie Kime Scott, ed., Selected Letters of Rebecca West, Wellsian, 23 (2000), 62-66.
Kirby Farrell, Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties, Wellsian, 23 (2000), 66-68.
Edward James, ed., Foundation, 28: 77 (Autumn 1999), Wellsian, 23 (2000), 69-72.
Leon Stover, ed., When the Sleeper Wakes. A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices, Wellsian, 23 (2000), 72-73.
David Lake, Darwin and Doom: H. G. Wells and 'The Time Machine', Kritikon Litterarum, 27: 1 / 2 (2000), 64-66.
Leon Stover, ed., The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance. A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices and The First Men in the Moon. A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices, Kritikon Litterarum, 27: 1 / 2 (2000), 67-70.
Kirby Farrell, Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties, Kritikon Litterarum, 27: 1 / 2 (2000), 70-73.
David Seed, ed., Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 7 (Autumn 2000), 9.
Andrew Brink, Obsession and Culture: A Study of Sexual Obsession in Modern Fiction, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 7 (Autumn 2000), 10.
A. B. Apana, The Other Universe of Man: Travel Autobiography and D. H. Lawrence, Kritikon Litterarum, 27: 3 / 4 (2000), 156-58.
Michael Paris, Warrior Nation: Images of War in British Popular Culture, 1850-2000, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 8 (Spring 2001), 11.
Monique Reintjes, Odette Keun (1888-1978), Wellsian, 24 (2001), 60-63.
Leon Stover, ed., The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations and Appendices, Wellsian, 24 (2001), 64-67.
Leon Stover, ed., The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine. A Critical Text of the 1902 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices, Wellsian, 24 (2001), 68.
[Review Essay] 'H. G. Wells and Youth – Introductory Studies of Wells, 1990-2001', Wellsian, 24 (2001), 69-72.
Joseph Pierce, Literary Converts, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 10 (Autumn 2001), [10].
Jeremy Tambling, Lost in the American City: Dickens, James and Kafka, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 11 (Spring 2002), [6].
Patrick Parrinder, ed., Learning from Other Planets: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia, Kritikon Litterarum, 29: 1 / 2 (2002), 64-67.
W. Warren Wagar, Memoirs of the Future, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 12 (Spring / Summer 2002), [7].
W. Warren Wagar, ed., The Open Conspiracy: H. G. Wells on Revolution, Wellsian, 25 (2002), 64-67.
Andrea Lynn, Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells, Wellsian, 25 (2002), 67-69.
House of Stratus hardback editions of the works of H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 13 (Summer 2002), [10].
Andrew Higson, ed., Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain 1896-1930, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 4: 14 (Autumn 2002), [6].
Dan Stone, Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain, Inklings-Jahrbuch, 20 (2002), 329-32.
A. B. McKillop, The Spinster & the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H. G. Wells, and the Mystery of the Purloined Past, Kritikon Litterarum, 29: 3 / 4 (2002), 164-66.
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, intro. by W. Warren Wagar, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 1 (Spring 2003), [4].
Alexandra Lambert and Elmar Schenkel, eds., The Golden Egg: Alchemy in Art and Literature, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 1 (Spring 2003), [6].
‘Bison Frontiers of Imagination’ [The War in the Air, In the Days of the Comet, The Last War and The Sleeper Awakes], H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 2 (Summer 2003), [10].
Tom Pomplun, ed., Graphic Classics Volume Three: H. G. Wells, Wellsian, 26 (2003), 57-59.
Don G. Smith, H. G. Wells on Film, Wellsian, 26 (2003), 59-62.
Leon Stover, Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein, Wellsian, 26 (2003), 63-66.
William T. Ross, H. G. Wells’s World Reborn, Wellsian, 26 (2003), 66-70.
Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Victorian Literature and the Victorian State, H. G. Wells Society, the Americas, 1: 6 (Summer / Autumn 2004), [10].
Angelique Richardson, Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman, Kritikon Litterarum, 31: 1 / 2 (2004), 85-87.
Charles De Paolo, Human Prehistory in Fiction, Wellsian, 27 (2004), 52-55.
Linda Dryden, The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles, Wellsian, 27 (2004), 56-58.
John Huntington, ed., The H. G. Wells Reader, Wellsian, 27 (2004), 58-60.
Leon Stover, ed., Man Who Could Work Miracles, Wellsian, 27 (2004), 60-63.
Thomas C. Renzi, H. G. Wells: Six Scientific Romances Adapted for Film, Wellsian, 28 (2005), 57-62.
John R. Hammond, H. G. Wells’s 'The Time Machine': A Reference Guide, Wellsian, 28 (2005), 62-66.
Harold Bloom, ed., H. G. Wells, Wellsian, 28 (2005), 67-72.
Lynne Hapgood, Margins of Desire; Benita Parry, Postcolonial Studies; and David Ketterer, ed., Flashes of the Fantastic, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 7 (Spring 2005), [8-10]
Gisela Hermann-Brennecke and Wolf Kindermann, eds., Anglo-American Awareness, and Tom Pomplun, ed., Graphic Classics: H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 8 (Summer 2005), supplement.
Anne Holden Rønning, Hidden and Visible Suffrage, Wellsian, 29 (2006), 47-51.
Glenn Yeffeth, ed., The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspective on the H. G. Wells Classic, Wellsian, 29 (2006), 51-56.
Gordon D. Feir, H. G. Wells at the End of His Tether, Wellsian, 29 (2006), 56-62.
John R. Hammond, H. G. Wells’s 'The Time Machine', Kritikon Litterarum, 33: 1 / 2 (2006), 62-68.
H. G. Wells, The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, intro. William T. Ross and W. Warren Wagar, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 12 (Autumn 2006), [8-9].
William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers, eds., Grant Allen, H. G. Wells Society, the Americas, 1: 9 (Autumn 2006), [7-8].
H. G. Wells, Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia, ed. John Huntington, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5: 13 (Spring 2007), [11-12].
Robert M. Philmus, Visions and Re-visions, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5. 14 (Summer 2007), [10-11].
Robert M. Philmus, Visions and Re-visions, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5. 15 (Autumn 2007), [9-10].
Christine Ferguson, Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5. 15 (Autumn 2007), [10-11].
Ruth Livesey, Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914, 'Critic as Critic', 46 (September / October 2008), Oscholars, http://www.oscholarship.com/TO/Archive/Forty-six/Critic/critic.htm#Livesey.
Graham Johnson, Social Democratic Politics in Britain 1881-1911, ‘Critic as Critic’, 48 (January / February 2009), Oscholars, http://www.oscholarship.com/TO/Archive/Forty-eight/Critic/critic.htm#jsp.
Deborah Mutch, English Socialist Periodicals, 1880-1900: A Reference Source, ‘Critic as Critic’, 49 (March / April 2009), Oscholars, http://www.oscholarship.com/TO/Archive/Forty-nine/Critic/critic.htm#jp.
Steven McLean, H. G. Wells: Interdisciplinary Essays, Kritikon Litterarum, 36: 3/4 (2009), 197-204.
Robert Frankel, Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890-1950, Kritikon Litterarum, 36: 3/4 (2009), 211-16.
Michael J. Griffin and Tom Moylan, eds., Exploring the Utopian Impulse, and Jörn Rüsen, Michael Fehr and Thomas W. Rieger, eds., Thinking Utopia, H. G. Wells Newsletter, 5.19 (Spring 2010), 11-14.
Steven McLean, The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science, Kritikon Litterarum, 37:3/4 (2010), 260-68.
John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, Kritikon Litterarum, 37:3/4 (2010), 268-73.
Justin E. A. Busch, The Utopian Vision of H. G. Wells, Kritikon Litterarum, 38:1/2 (2011), 123-29.
Michael Sherborne, H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life, Kritikon Litterarum, 38:1/2 (2011), 129-33.

Conference Organised
'Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe' conference, Universität Leipzig, 12-14 July 2002 [with Prof. Elmar Schenkel].

Conference Presentations
‘The Time Machine: A Polemic on the Inevitability of Working-Class Liberation, and a Plea for a Socialist Solution to Victorian Capitalist Exploitation’ at Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London for the H. G. Wells Society/University of California International Symposium, 'The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future', 26-29 July 1995.
‘The First Men in the Moon and the "Corporative State"’ at Geschwister-Scholl-Haus, Ritterstrasse 8/10, Leipzig, Germany for the Institut für Anglistik, Universität Leipzig, 'Lost Worlds & Mad Elephants: An International Conference on Science, Technology and Literature', 30 April-3 May 1998.
‘When the Sleeper Wakes: Sociological Prophecy for Late-Victorian Society, or, H. G. Wells and the Rule of the Übermensch’ at the University of California, Riverside for the 20th Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 'Science Fiction at the Crossroads of Two Cultures', 15-17 January 1999.
‘Challenging Elites: The Time Machine and When the Sleeper Wakes as Critiques of Late-Victorian Society’ at the University of Reading for the English Department 'Modern Research Seminar', 18 February 1999.
‘The Death of the Static: H. G. Wells and the Kinetic Utopia’ at the University of East Anglia conference, 'A Millennium of Utopias: The Theory, History and Future of Utopianism', 23-26 June 1999.
‘Revising Anticipations: Wells on Race and Class’ at the H. G. Wells Society weekend conference, 'H. G. Wells and His Critics', at the University of Westminster, 18-19 September 1999.
‘H. G. Wells and the World State’ at the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Kent-Canterbury conference, 'Bordering Europe', 19-21 September 1999.
‘From Eugenics to Welfarism: H. G. Wells and the Search for Utopia’ at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Reading conference, 'H. G. Wells at the Millennium: Science Fiction and Social Prophecy', 26 February 2000.
‘World State: Federal or Functional? H. G. Wells and the Future of Globalisation’ at the H. G. Wells Society weekend conference, 'The Future and H. G. Wells', at the University of Westminster, 16-17 September 2000.
‘H. G. Wells and the Kinetic Utopia’ at the Institute of English Studies conference, 'The Writer and New Technologies in the Twentieth Century: H. G. Wells and Science Fiction', at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, 27 March 2001.
‘The Time Machine and A Modern Utopia: The Static and Kinetic Utopias of the Early H. G. Wells’, Utopian Studies Society conference, 'Utopia 2001', at New Lanark Mill Hotel, New Lanark, Scotland, 28-30 June 2001.
‘The Pen as Sword: George Orwell, H. G. Wells and Journalistic Parricide’, H. G. Wells Society conference, 'Wells and Orwell: A Parricide Lost?', at the University of Westminster, 15 September 2001.
‘H. G. Wells’s Eugenic Thinking, 1892-1944’, Institute of Historical Research Seminar, University of London, 22 May 2002.
‘Europe in the Writings of H. G. Wells’, 'Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe' conference, Universität Leipzig, 12-14 July 2002.
‘"There’s a Better World a-Coming": The Urban Collectivism-Rural Individualism of Woody Guthrie’, 'Utopias and Globalization: From Early Modernity to the 21st Century', New Lanark Mill Hotel, New Lanark, Scotland, 30 June-2 July 2005.
‘H. G. Wells and the BBC’, H. G. Wells Society conference, 'H. G. Wells: New Directions', at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, 23 September 2006.
'Clara Zetkin's Reception in British Socialism and the British Women's Movement', 'Leipzig in der Englischsprachigen Kultur' conference, Universität Leipzig, 22 May 2009.
‘H. G. Wells and Birth Control’, H. G. Wells Society conference, 'H. G. Wells: From Kent to Cosmopolis', University of Kent at Canterbury, 9-11 July 2010.
‘The International Women’s Secretary in Wartime: Clara Zetkin and Britain, 1912-1918’, 'Unequal Sisters: Women, Gender, and Global Inequalities in Historical Perspective' conference, International Federation for Research in Women’s History, in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, Aletta – Institute for Women’s History, Amsterdam, 25-27 August 2010.
(with Nadine Menzel) 'British Travellers in the Soviet Union', 'Under Western and Eastern Eyes: Blickwechsel Ost-West' conference, Universität Leipzig, 22-24 October 2010.
'Wales Strikes Back: British Media Coverage of Cardiff City FC’s Victory in the English FA Cup, 1927', 'Cultural Identities in Europe: Nations and Regions, Migration and Minorities' Eichstätter Europatag, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 24-25 June 2011.