TY - CHAP
T1 - Prickly pears and Martian weeds
T2 - ecological invasion narratives in history and fiction
AU - Alt, Christina
PY - 2014/4/14
Y1 - 2014/4/14
N2 - In 1898, R. A. Gregory, the editor of Nature, published a review of H.
G. Wells’s
novel, The War of the Worlds, under the title ‘Science in Fiction’.
Gregory praised
Wells for his ‘ingenuity in manipulating scientific material’, noting
Wells’s
engagement with Percival Lowell’s astronomical observations of Mars, his
speculation regarding the evolutionary development and technological
prowess of the
Martian invaders, and the ‘distinctly clever’ plot twist centring around
the Martians’
susceptibility to earthly germs (Gregory, 1898: 339). Both the specific
points of
scientific interest identified by Gregory and the fact that Gregory
regarded Wells’s
novel as warranting a review in the preeminent science journal of the
period suggest
the extent of Wells’s engagement with contemporary science.
AB - In 1898, R. A. Gregory, the editor of Nature, published a review of H.
G. Wells’s
novel, The War of the Worlds, under the title ‘Science in Fiction’.
Gregory praised
Wells for his ‘ingenuity in manipulating scientific material’, noting
Wells’s
engagement with Percival Lowell’s astronomical observations of Mars, his
speculation regarding the evolutionary development and technological
prowess of the
Martian invaders, and the ‘distinctly clever’ plot twist centring around
the Martians’
susceptibility to earthly germs (Gregory, 1898: 339). Both the specific
points of
scientific interest identified by Gregory and the fact that Gregory
regarded Wells’s
novel as warranting a review in the preeminent science journal of the
period suggest
the extent of Wells’s engagement with contemporary science.
KW - Environmental humanities
KW - H. G. Wells
KW - Ecological invasion narratives
KW - Prickly pear
KW - The War of the Worlds
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Invasion-Ecologies-from-the-Environmental-Humanities/Frawley-McCalman/p/book/9780415716574
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85073126942
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780415716567
SN - 9780415716574
T3 - Routledge environmental humanities
SP - 137
EP - 148
BT - Rethinking invasion ecologies from the environmental humanities
A2 - Frawley, Jodi
A2 - McCalman, Iain
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -
