Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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A historical term for imaginative fiction built around scientific ideas or possibilities, especially the late nineteenth-century writing of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. Here, ‘romance’ means an imaginative adventure, not a love story.
Revise: ContextThe novel is also a scientific romance, a term associated with imaginative scientific fiction by writers such as Jules Verne and Wells. Here, ‘romance’ means imaginative adventure, not a love story. Scientific possibilities become a means of examining society, rather than merely supplying unusual machines.
- Revise: Book Two, Chapters 6 to 10: dead London and the Epilogue
A nineteenth-century form of fiction that explores extraordinary possibilities through scientific ideas. Wells combines imagined alien technology with recognisable places and human reactions.