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For Further Reading: Horsfall, H.G. Wells, and Degeneration

Primary Sources

 

Horsfal, T.C.  "The Study of Beauty, and Art in Large Towns: Two Papers by T.C. Horsfall, with an Introduction by John Ruskin, D.C.L., LL.D., Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary Fellow of Corpus-Christi College." London : Macmillan and Co., 1883.

 

Lankester, E. Ray. “Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism.” Nature Series. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880.

 

Wells, H.G. The Outline of History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Accessed on Project Gutenberg on 16 March 2016. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45368/45368-h/45368-h.htm.

 

________.  The Time Machine. London: Macmillan, 1895.

 

Secondary Sources

 

Barnett, Richard. “Education or Degeneration: E. Ray Lankester, H.G. Wells, and The Outline of History.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (2006): 203-229.

 

Hale, Piers J. “Of Mice and Men: Evolution and the Socialist Utopia. William Morris, H.G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw.” Journal of the History of Biology 43 (2010): 17-66.

 

Harrison, Michael. “Art and Philanthropy: T.C. Horsfall and the Manchester Art Museum.” In City, Class, and Culture: Studies of Social Policy and Cultural Production in Victorian Manchester. Eds. Alan Kidd and K.W. Roberts. Manchester: Manchester University       Press, 1985: 120-147.

 

Huntington, John. “The Time Machine and Wells’s Social Trajectory.” In The Time Machine: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Stephen Arata. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.

 

Karschay, Stephen. Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth Century Writing and Culture. Ed. Joseph Bristow. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

 

Killeen, Jarlath. Gothic Literature 1825-1914. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2009

 

Morris, Andrew R. “Oscar Wilde and the Eclipse of Darwinism: Aestheticism, Degeneration,  and Moral Reaction in Late-Victorian Ideology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 24.4 (1993): 513-540.

 

Robb, George. “The Way of All Flesh: Degeneration, Eugenics, and the Gospel of Free Love.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 6.4 (April 1996): 589-603.