All Outputs (3)

'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape (2013)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2013). 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape. Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies, 1(1), 89-101

Biographical accounts of William Hope Hodgson naturally tend to focus on two main features of his career before he became a full-time writer: sailing and physical culture (Everts). Both provide useful contexts for reading Hodgson’s fiction. In some e... Read More about 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape.

(Re)encountering animals in William Hope Hodgson’s weird science fiction (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2013, November). (Re)encountering animals in William Hope Hodgson’s weird science fiction. Paper presented at The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genres, Birkbeck, University of London

The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2013, April). The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference

Critical analyses of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) have attended closely to themes of biology, such as evolutionary degeneration, but those of physics have not been treated with comparable depth. While many accounts of The Time Machine do con... Read More about The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics..