Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe

John S. Partington was the editor of The Wellsian.

• Series Editor's Preface, Ellnor Shaffer; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Timeline: European Reception of H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading); Abbreviations; Introduction, Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading) FRENCH 1. H. G. Wells's Critical Reception in France, Joseph Altairac (Paris, France), trans. Barbara Ghiringhelli 2. Henry-D. Davray and Mercure de France, Annie Escuret (University of Montpellier, France) RUSSIAN 3. Future Perfect: H. G. Wells and Bolshevik Russia, 1917-1932; Roger Cockrell (University of Exeter) 4. H. G. Wells in Russian Literary Criticism, 1890s-1940s, Adelaida Lyubimova (Perm University, Russia) and Boris Proskurnin (Perm University, Russia) 5. Russia Revisited, Vera Shamina (Kazan State University, Russia) and Maria Kozyreva (Kazan State University, Russia) GERMAN 6. White Elephants and Black Machines: H. G. Wells and German Culture, 1920-1945, Elmar Schenkel (University of Leipzig, Germany) 7. Ignorance, Opportunism, Propaganda, and Dissent: The Reception of H. G. Wells in Nazi Germany, Richard Nate (University of Duisberg, Essen, Germany) POLISH 8. H. G. Wells's Polish Reception, Andrzej Juszczyk (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 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 (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic) 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 (University of Szeged, Hungary) ITALIAN 13. H. G. Wells, Italian Futurism and Marinetti's The Untamables (Gli Indomabili), Maria Teresa Chialant (University of Salerno, Italy) 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 PORTUGUESE 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 (University of Limerick, Ireland) FRENCH AND RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION 18. A Tale of Two Science Fictions: H. G. Wells in France and the Soviet Union, George Slusser (University of Califormia, Riverside, USA) and Daniele Chatelain (University of Redlands, USA) EUROPEAN FILM 19. 'The Invisible Wells' In European Cinema and Television, Nicoletta Vallorani EUROPEAN UNIFICATION 20. H. G. Wells and the International Paneuropean Union, John S. Partington (University of Reading) Bibliography; Index

'an ambitious and always informative review of European reactions to Well and his work...Parrinder and Partinger 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)