The climate of Utopia: Victorian hothouses and H. G. Wells

In “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” (1894), The Time Machine (1895), and A Modern Utopia (1905), H. G. Wells criticizes the idea inherited from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) that ideal climate is static. In “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” the constant climate of Winter Wedderburn’s steaming...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lund, SE
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Indiana University Press 2023