Bulwer-Lytton – Posthuman Aesthetics

Man’s superiority challenged – the second fall of man?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Coming Race” tells the story of a wealthy traveler who by accident ends in a subterranean world

“Nor, on the other hand, do you seem to belong to any civilised people“, (Pos. 345) says one of the

In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), we are presented our narrator, an unnamed traveller, who, after a descent into

This novel’s opening was fascinating and yet all too familiar. The story of an explorer finding an advanced race underground

The protagonist in Edward Bulwer-Lutton’s “The Coming Race” ends up in an utopian parallel univers underneath the surface of the

As Laura Søvsø Thomasen points out it in her video lecture, Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Butler, H.G. Wells and others, were writing