Island of Doctor Moreau

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Introduction      1. The Text      2. Nature and Nurture      3. Noble’s Isle      4. Chance, Waste, and Pain      5. Chronolatry      6. The Sphinx of Sin      7. Pig Philosophy      8. Vivisection Morality      The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)      (Annotated text of the first London edition)      Epilogue: The Coming Terror      AppendicesI. a. “The Province of Pain” (1894)      b. Excerpt from Text-Book of Biology (1893, Part I—Vertebrata)      II. “The Limits of Individual Plasticity” (1895c)      III. a. “Human Evolution, An Artificial Process” (1896c)      b. “Mr. Wells Replies” (1897b)      c. “The Acquired Factor” (1897a)      IV. a. “The Influence of Islands on Variation” (1895e)      b. “To the Editor of the Saturday Review” (1896d)      V. “Morals and Civilisation” (1897c)      VI. Excerpt from Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science (1883)      Bibliography      Index

“Wells’s masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions...academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in this volume”—Library Journal; “Stover is to be thanked for his years of Wellsian scholarship”—Public Library Quarterly; “Stover, by presenting the intellectual underpinnings of Wells’ work, has provided a powerful tool for understanding his writings, one sees them more deeply, without losing that earlier sense-of-wonder that originally opened the vistas of the young reader’s mind...a crucial guide to these classics of science fiction”—Fosfax; “two cheers for Stoverism...formidable scholarship...serious students of Wells would be foolish to ignore ‘Stoverism’”—The Wellsian; “Stover should be commended for a painstaking and meticulous editorial commentary”—Utopian Studies; “extensively annotated and analyzed by Stover...annotations are filled with insights into Wells’ writings and philosophy”—C&RL News.