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Utopia di Mezzo: Strategie compositive in When the Sleeper Wakes di H.G. Wells.(Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 19990322
Author:La Bossiere, Camille R.

Nicoletta Vallorani. Utopia di Mezzo: Strategie compositive in When the Sleeper Wakes di H.G. Wells. Torino: Editrice Tirrenia Stampatori, 1996. 133 pp. 14,000 Lire.

WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES: A Story of Things to Come (1899) remains a rarity of sorts, a scientific romance from H.G. Wells that has never achieved popularity. Nor has critical assessment of its artistic value been especially flattering: "Considered simply in terms of literary virtue," as Frank McConnell had occasion to observe in 1981, When the Sleeper Wakes "is a fairly shoddy performance for a writer of Wells's ...

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