The Coming Race – Posthuman Aesthetics

Western Gaze and the Non-human

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel The Coming Race refers directly to the western representations of the unknown reproduced as powerful tropes

In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), the other found in the history are the Vril-ya, they resemble human form

For this essay, I’d like to (due very much to the limitation to volume of text) focus on a very

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s narrator in The Coming Race (1871) comes into contact with another highly developed species of humanoids calling themselves

What if the human race is not entitled to its self-proclaimed superiority? Such a question is posed in the early

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

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

(Bostrom, 2009, p. 20) Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (1871), is set in an Utopian underground world discovered by a

One of the most posthuman characteristics about the Ana-race, and the one I will focus on in this essay, is

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