Nick Hubble

Bio

Nick Hubble is Professor of Modern and Contemporary English at Brunel University London, UK. They are the author of Mass-Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and one of the series editors of Bloomsbury Academic’s “British Fiction: The Decades Series.”

Contributions

The Woolfian Century: Modernism as Science Fiction, 1929–2029

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In 2009, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson argued, drawing on the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Olaf Stapledon, that Between the Acts (1941) “ends with Stapledonian imagery, describing our species steeped in the eons. Woolf’s last pages were a kind of science fiction.” [1] At the time, this assertion seemed transgressive because of the way it linked perhaps the most revered modernist writer in the Anglophone literary sphere with a genre that formerly was considered to be...

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