Troping hope: A discursive and rhetorical-tropological analysis of the politics of humanity in the fiction and nonfiction of H. G. Wells. KU Leuven
This dissertation takes as its primary research object the early science fiction work of H. G. Wells and compares it to the scientific journalism of the same author during the beginning decade or so of his career (1890-1903), seeking a confrontation on the level of theme, argument, and rhetorical investment between the different modes of writing. Together with the work of other writers, including William James, Thomas Henry Huxley, and ...