Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel The Coming Race refers directly to the western representations of the unknown reproduced as powerful tropes
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The coming of the human
In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), the other found in the history are the Vril-ya, they resemble human form
How to imagine the unimaginable
Edward Bulwer-Lytton investigates an interesting and possibly frightening situation in his novel The Coming Race: the idea of man meeting
Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Equilibrium of Power
For this essay, I’d like to (due very much to the limitation to volume of text) focus on a very
Humans, the ‘Other’ and Post-Human Ideas in The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s narrator in The Coming Race (1871) comes into contact with another highly developed species of humanoids calling themselves
A vision of collective enlightenment
One of the most posthuman characteristics about the Ana-race, and the one I will focus on in this essay, is