Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity
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Chung, June Hee. Henry James and the Media Arts of Modernity: Commercial Cosmopolitanism. New York and London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2019.
The literary feud (1915 and thereabout)[1] between Henry James and H. G. Wells[2] was once well known in literary circles and could rouse passions even fairly recently[3] — and we will avoid discussing it. But the existence of the feud can underline how far Henry James and June Hee Chung's book are outside SF and SF criticism, and thereby underline as well the potential usefulness for criticism of finding in James's works concerns that appear in SF, frequently in SF of the 20th century.
Note that a number of James's important works[4]come in the period between the landmark narratives of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) and E. M. Foster's definitive long story, "The Machine Stops" (1909) — and precedes the commercial take-off of US pulp SF with the start of Amazing Stories (April 1926)[5] and the work, e.g., of D. H. Lawrence, with its interest in technology: note Women in Love (1920), and the discussion by Joanna G. Semelks of Lawrence and technology in her "Sex, Lawrence, and Videotape."
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