The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe

Series Editor's Preface, Elinor Shaffer \ Acknowledgements \ List of Contributors \ Timeline: European Reception of H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder \ Abbreviations \ Introduction, Patrick Parrinder \ French \ 1. H. G. Wells's Critical Reception in France, Joseph Altairac, trans. Barbara Ghiringhelli \ 2. Henry-D. Davray and Mercure de France, Annie Escuret \ Russian \ 3. Future Perfect: H. G. Wells and Bolshevik Russia, 1917-1932, Roger Cockrell \ 4. H. G. Wells in Russian Literary Criticism, 1890s-1940s, Adelaida Lyubimova and Boris Proskurnin \ 5. Russia Revisited, Vera Shamina and Maria Kozyreva \ German \ 6. White Elephants and Black Machines: H. G. Wells and German Culture, 1920-1945, Elmar Schenkel \ 7. Ignorance, Opportunism, Propaganda, and Dissent: The Reception of H. G. Wells in Nazi Germany, Richard Nate \ Polish \ 8. H. G. Wells's Polish Reception, Andrzej Juszczyk \ 9. On Translations of H. G. Wells's Work into Polish, Julius K. Palczewski \ Czech \ 10. A Welcome Guest: the Czech Reception of H. G. Wells, Bohuslav Manek \ Hungary \ 11. Critics and Apologists of H. G. Wells in Interwar Hungary, Gabriella Voo \ 12. The Puzzle of the Connection between H. G. Wells and the Hungarian Frigyes Karinthy, Katalin Csala \ Italian \ 13. H. G. Wells, Italian Futurism and Marinetti's The Untamables (Gli Indomabili), Maria Teresa Chialant \ Catalan \ 14. An Approximation of H. G. Wells's Impact on Catalonia, Teresa Iribarren i Donadeu \ Spanish \ 15. H. G. Wells and the Discourse of Censorship in Franco's Spain, Alberto Lazaro \ Portugese \ 16. News from Nowhere: Portuguese Dialogues with H. G. Wells, Jose Manuel Mota \ IRISH \ 17. Clashing Utopias: H. G. Wells and Catholic Ireland, Lucian Ashworth \ French and Russian Science Fiction \ 18. A Tale of Two Science Fictions: H. G. Wells in France and the Soviet Union, George Slusser and Daniele Chatelain \ European Film \ 19. 'The Invisible Wells' in European Cinema and Television, Nicoletta Vallorani \ European

John S. Partington was the editor of The Wellsian.

'an ambitious and always informative review of European reactions to Well and his work...Parrinder and Partington collect a wealth of information, much of it translated into English for the first time, in readable essays of uniform quality.' ~ Kritikon Litterarum, 33 (2006) Kritikon Litterarum (FR) 'Elinor Shaffer, grande specialiste de litterature comparee de l'Universite de Londres ..., aura eu tot fait de rendre incontournable la recente collection d'ouvrages evoquant la reception d'auteurs britanniques, et publiee par Thoemmes Continuum dans la serie " Athlone Critical Traditions ". Le remarquable volume inaugural consacre a Virginia Woolf en 2002 a ete suivi, en quatre courtes annees, d'une liste impressionnante de titres [qui] mobilisent la meme energie collective a l'echelle internationale. (EN)'Elinor Shaffer, an eminent specialist in comparative literature, from the University of London...will have made it impossible to circumvent the recent collection of works evoking the reception of British authors, published by Continuum in the series "Athlone Critical Traditions". The remarkable inaugural volume devoted to Virginia Woolf in 2002 was followed, in four short years, by an impressive list of titles [each] mobilising the same collective energy on an international scale. (FR)Parce qu'il tient a la fois de l'etude bibliographique a l'echelle europeenne, et de l'analyse theorique de la reception de l'uuvre litteraire, ce livre fait pleinement honneur a la collection soignee qui l'abrite, tout en offrant un nouvel outil precieux au lecteur de Wells.' (EN)...because it holds the bibliographical study on a European scale, and the theoretical analysis of the reception of the literary oeuvre, this book fully honours the neat collection which shelters it, while offering a new invaluable tool to Wells readers.' Extract from Christine Huguet (Universite de Lille III), Etudes Anglaises, 60.2 (2007): 246-47. 'The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe is a landmark. The