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October 1, 2017

The War of the Wheels H. G. Wells and the Bicycle

McIntyre Amy
The War of the Wheels  H. G. Wells and the Bicycle

By Jeremy Withers. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2017.

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his scientific romances and social comedies, to utopias, futurological speculations, and letters, Wells’s texts brim with bicycles.  In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells’s personal life and as a literary device for creating ...

Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time

McIntyre Amy
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time

Edited by Tom Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, November 2017.

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.

Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and ...