Apocalypse, Inc.: Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Asselin
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle

scholarly journals TONO-BUNGAY AND BURROUGHS WELLCOME: BRANDING IMPERIAL POPULAR MEDICINE

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-162
Author(s):  
Meegan Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Popular Medicine ◽  
Commodity Culture ◽  
Patent Medicines ◽  
Fin De Siècle

H. G. Wells's 1908 novel Tono-Bungay is a remarkable concoction, binding together characters and setting out of Dickens, sparkling imitations of fin-de-siécle commodity culture and new media, bitter social satire inflected by Wells's socialism, fascination with invention and flight, and murderous imperial adventure. Readers, though often seduced by the wit and precision of Wells's depiction of patent medicines and their advertisements, have not known whether to read the narrative as anti-Bildungsroman, Condition of England novel, science fiction, or imperial romance. It is no wonder that many critics have labeled this novel a failure.

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