Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells

Linda Dryden is Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, and Director of the University's Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW). She is author of two monographs, Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance, and The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells, and co-editor of Stevenson and Conrad: Writers of Transition.

“Dryden’s thoroughly researched monograph contains a very systematically organized and impressive bulk of data on the two turn-of-the-century writers’ relationship, and she advances her argument in a clear, reader-friendly style. … researchers looking for intersections of the two authors’ art, which have a great potential for fruitful inter-textual analysis, will probably find Dryden’s volume most helpful.” (Angelika Reichmann, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 22 (2), Fall, 2016)

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Martians, Sleepers, Time Travellers and Hearts of Darkness 2. Conrad, Wells, Ford and the Ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson 3. Quap, Ivory, and Insect Empires 4. 'The difference between us': Science, Politics and the Human Factor 5. Conrad, Wells, and the Art of the Novel 6. The Shape of War and of Things to Come Afterword Bibliography Index