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UNNATURAL INTERBREEDING: H. G. WELLS'S A MODERN UTOPIA AS SPECIES AND GENRE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

Harvey N. Quamen
Harvey N. Quamen
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Does a theory of literary kinds involve the supposition that every work belongs to a kind? The question is not raised in any discussion we know. If we were to answer by analogy to the natural world, we should certainly answer ‘yes’: even the whale and the bat can be placed; and we admit of creatures who are transitions from one kingdom to another.

—René Wellek and Austin Warren, Theory of Literature (1942)

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EDITORS' TOPIC: VICTORIAN TAXONOMIES
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 67 - 84
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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