Background
Parrinder, John Patrick was born on October 11, 1944 in Wadebridge, England. Son of Eric Reginald and Eileen Dorothy (Skeffington-White) P. divorced.
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(H.G.Wells: The Critical Heritage) Author: Patrick Parrinder published on (May, 1997)
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Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy (Utopianism & Communitarianism)
(H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine ...)
H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase "the shape of things to come" - described his life's work as one of critical anticipation. This book unravels the complex layers of meaning in "The Time Machine", and shows how, throughout his life, he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways. Described by John Middleton Murry as "the last prophet of bourgeois Europe", he was its first futurologist. In "Shadows of the Future", Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championing of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. Parrinder explores the connections between novelty and repetition, between imagining the future and imagining the past, and between prophecy and parody as literary modes. Wells's science fiction is reexamined both as a projection of the cosmology implicit in the writings of Darwin and Huxley, and as a new variation on the Romantic and Enlightenment themes of such earlier authors as Blake, Gibbon and Mary Shelley. Later chapters relate Wells's fiction to his nonfiction and look at the uneasy relationship of his utopianism to literary prophecy, and at the paradoxes inherent in the militant internationalism of the "prophet at large". Finally, Well's influence is traced in a study of the antiutopian fictions in Zamayatin and Orwell, and in a broad account of the connections between science fiction and the scientific outlook down to our time.
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The Failure of Theory : Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Fiction
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Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy (Utopianism & Communitarianism)
(H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine ...)
H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase "the shape of things to come" - described his life's work as one of critical anticipation. This book unravels the complex layers of meaning in "The Time Machine", and shows how, throughout his life, he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways. Described by John Middleton Murry as "the last prophet of bourgeois Europe", he was its first futurologist. In "Shadows of the Future", Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championing of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. Parrinder explores the connections between novelty and repetition, between imagining the future and imagining the past, and between prophecy and parody as literary modes. Wells's science fiction is reexamined both as a projection of the cosmology implicit in the writings of Darwin and Huxley, and as a new variation on the Romantic and Enlightenment themes of such earlier authors as Blake, Gibbon and Mary Shelley. Later chapters relate Wells's fiction to his nonfiction and look at the uneasy relationship of his utopianism to literary prophecy, and at the paradoxes inherent in the militant internationalism of the "prophet at large". Finally, Well's influence is traced in a study of the antiutopian fictions in Zamayatin and Orwell, and in a broad account of the connections between science fiction and the scientific outlook down to our time.
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John Patrick Parrinder
Edit Profileliterary critic English literature educator
Education
Master of Arts, University Cambridge, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, 1969.
Career
Fellow King's College, Cambridge, 1969-1974. Lecturer University Reading, England, 1974-1980, reader England, 1980-1986, professor England, since 1986. Visiting professor University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1978-1979, University California, Santa Barbara, 1989.
Leverhulme major research fellow, since 2001.
Achievements
Works
book
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Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy (Utopianism & Communitarianism)
(H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine ...)
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Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy (Utopianism & Communitarianism)
(H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine ...)
- Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching (New Accents)
- (H.G.Wells: The Critical Heritage) Author: Patrick Parrinder published on (May, 1997)
- The Failure of Theory : Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Fiction
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Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy (Utopianism & Communitarianism)
Membership
Fellow King"s College, Cambridge, 1967-1974. Member H.G. Wells Society (vice president 1989), Science Fiction Foundation.
Interests
Connections
Son of Eric Reginald and Eileen Dorothy (Skeffington-White) P. Divorced; children: Anna Christina, Lisa Monica.
