The pervasion of horror in "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This term paper researches into the pervasion of horror in H.G. Wells’ novel "The War of the Worlds". The story’s thrilling invasion of Martians punctures at the Victorian pretensions in the nineteenth century. Furthermore its imagination is based on the scientific prog...