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
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
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
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
Thrown off the Throne
What if the human race is not entitled to its self-proclaimed superiority? Such a question is posed in the early
Angelic imagery of a posthuman species in “The Coming Race”
“Nor, on the other hand, do you seem to belong to any civilised people“, (Pos. 345) says one of the
Prosthesis and the Body
This novel’s opening was fascinating and yet all too familiar. The story of an explorer finding an advanced race underground
The Coming of the Future of Humanity
(Bostrom, 2009, p. 20) Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (1871), is set in an Utopian underground world discovered by a
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