Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Edward Bulwer Lytton: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Coming Race
Appendix A: Bulwer’s Letters on The Coming Race
Appendix B: Reviews
- The Examiner (3 June 1871)
- The Illustrated London News (8 July 1871)
- The Times (30 August 1871)
Appendix C: Nineteenth-Century Science and Adventure Fiction
- From John Cleves Symmes, Symzonia:A Voyage of Discovery (1820)
- From Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
- From Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)
- From H. Rider Haggard, She (1887)
- From H.G.Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
Appendix D: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Electricity
- From Michael Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity (1831–52)
- From James Clerk Maxwell, A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field (1865)
Appendix E: Evolution and Inheritance
- From Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy (1809)
- From Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
- From Thomas Huxley, Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863)
- From Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius (1869)
- From Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
Appendix F: From Max Müller, “On the Stratification of Language” (1868)
Appendix G: Sexual Politics and the “Woman Question”
- From Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)
- From Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House (1854–63)
- From John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (1865)
- From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period” (1868)
- From John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869)
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