London Doubts: Wellsian Undersides and Undertones in Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 (2015)

Coe’s latest novel surprisingly revisits some tropes of H. G. Wells’s scientific romances. This article studies what Number 11 owes to the dystopian cityscapes of the ‘London under’ we find in The Time Machine (1896) and The War of the Worlds (1898). Wells’s second obvious influence has much to do w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laurent Mellet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2018-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/5145