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Esta dissertação realiza uma análise do livro A Máquina do Tempo, escrito por H.G. Wells em 1895, e sua transposição fílmica homônima realizada por George Pal em 1960 dentro do escopo do gênero ficção-científica. São analisadas as mudanças que foram realizadas no processo de transposição da literatura para o cinema. Este trabalho discute inicialmente as características do gênero ficção-científica na literatura, como o gênero se diferencia de outros gêneros como a literatura fantástica, por exemplo, e quais são os elementos que compõem a identidade do gênero ficção-científica. Em um segundo momento investigamos os problemas que o gênero ficção-científica apresenta quando transposto a mídia cinematográfica. Entre os fatores investigados estão como a verossimilhança funciona na literatura de ficção-científica e como o leitor se relaciona com ela. Também se analisou como o gênero utiliza o conhecimento científico para criar seus universos ficcionais, e as mudanças que os realizadores fílmicos às vezes precisam fazer para tornar o universo literário ficcional aceitável ao espectador em termos de verossimilhança, considerando que o que é verossímil na literatura não é necessariamente verossímil no cinema, especialmente na literatura de ficção-científica, um gênero que possui uma ligação íntima com a ciência e o progresso. Para finalizar essa pesquisa analisa a relação entre o gênero ficção-científica e o cinema no que diz respeito aos problemas que o gênero apresenta ao cinema em termos de tecnologia. Em outras palavras, o gênero literário ficção-científica traz aos realizadores fílmicos problemas e desafios que exigem a pesquisa e o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias e técnicas visando resolvê-los. / The present work analyzes the book The Time Machine, written by H.G.Wells in 1895, as well as its transposition into a homonymous movie made by George Pal in 1960 as part of the science fiction genre. This work initially discusses the characteristics of the science fiction genre in literature, the way the genre differs from others such as the fantastic literature, for instance, and the fundamental elements of the science fiction genre. It then investigates the problems the science fiction genre presents when transposed to film media. Among the investigated factors are the problem of verisimilitude in science fiction literature and how the reader responds to it. This includes discussing the way the genre uses scientific knowledge to create its fictional universe, and the changes, in terms of verisimilitude, moviemakers need to consider when the fictional literary text is transferred into film. What sometimes is plausible in literature not always seems plausible in movies, especially in regard to science fiction literature, a genre that has a intimacy with science and progress. To conclude, this research analyzes the relation between the science fiction genre and film concerning the challenges the genre presents when transposed into another medium in terms of technology. These challenges require research and the development of new procedures for the cinematographic medium.

Esta dissertação realiza uma análise do livro A Máquina do Tempo, escrito por H.G. Wells em 1895, e sua transposição fílmica homônima realizada por George Pal em 1960 dentro do escopo do gênero ficção-científica. São analisadas as mudanças que foram realizadas no processo de transposição da literatura para o cinema. Este trabalho discute inicialmente as características do gênero ficção-científica na literatura, como o gênero se diferencia de outros gêneros como a literatura fantástica, por exemplo, e quais são os elementos que compõem a identidade do gênero ficção-científica. Em um segundo momento investigamos os problemas que o gênero ficção-científica apresenta quando transposto a mídia cinematográfica. Entre os fatores investigados estão como a verossimilhança funciona na literatura de ficção-científica e como o leitor se relaciona com ela. Também se analisou como o gênero utiliza o conhecimento científico para criar seus universos ficcionais, e as mudanças que os realizadores fílmicos às vezes precisam fazer para tornar o universo literário ficcional aceitável ao espectador em termos de verossimilhança, considerando que o que é verossímil na literatura não é necessariamente verossímil no cinema, especialmente na literatura de ficção-científica, um gênero que possui uma ligação íntima com a ciência e o progresso. Para finalizar essa pesquisa analisa a relação entre o gênero ficção-científica e o cinema no que diz respeito aos problemas que o gênero apresenta ao cinema em termos de tecnologia. Em outras palavras, o gênero literário ficção-científica traz aos realizadores fílmicos problemas e desafios que exigem a pesquisa e o desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias e técnicas visando resolvê-los. / The present work analyzes the book The Time Machine, written by H.G.Wells in 1895, as well as its transposition into a homonymous movie made by George Pal in 1960 as part of the science fiction genre. This work initially discusses the characteristics of the science fiction genre in literature, the way the genre differs from others such as the fantastic literature, for instance, and the fundamental elements of the science fiction genre. It then investigates the problems the science fiction genre presents when transposed to film media. Among the investigated factors are the problem of verisimilitude in science fiction literature and how the reader responds to it. This includes discussing the way the genre uses scientific knowledge to create its fictional universe, and the changes, in terms of verisimilitude, moviemakers need to consider when the fictional literary text is transferred into film. What sometimes is plausible in literature not always seems plausible in movies, especially in regard to science fiction literature, a genre that has a intimacy with science and progress. To conclude, this research analyzes the relation between the science fiction genre and film concerning the challenges the genre presents when transposed into another medium in terms of technology. These challenges require research and the development of new procedures for the cinematographic medium.

This thesis is a cultural history of the early Fabian Society, focusing on the decades between 1884, the Society’s inaugural year, and 1914. The canonical view is that ‘Fabianism,’ which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as the ‘doctrine and principles of the Fabian Society,’ is synonymous with State socialism and bureaucratic ‘efficiency.’ By bringing the methods of cultural history to bear on the Society’s founding members and decades, this thesis reveals that ‘Fabianism’ was in fact used as a dynamic metonymy, not a fixed doctrine, which signified a range of cultural, and even literary, meanings for British commentators in the 1890s and 1900s (Part 1). Further, by expanding the scope of traditional histories of the Fabian Society, which conventionally operate within political and economic sub-fields and focus on the Society’s ‘official’ literature, to include a close examination of the broader discursive context in which ‘Fabianism’ came into being, this thesis sets out to recover the symbolic aspects of the Fabians’ efforts to negotiate what ‘Fabianism’ meant to the English reading public. The Fabians’ conspicuous leadership in the modern education debates and the liberal fight for a ‘free stage,’ and their solidarity with the international political émigrés living in London at the turn of the twentieth century all contribute to this revised perspective on who the founding Fabians were, what they saw themselves as trying to achieve, and where the Fabian Society belonged—and was perceived to belong—in relation to British politics, culture, and society (Part 2). The original contribution of this thesis is the argument that the Fabians explicitly and implicitly evoked Matthew Arnold as a precursor in their efforts to articulate a kind of Fabian—latterly social-democratic—liberalism and a public vocation that balanced English liberties and the duty of the State to provide the ‘best’ for its citizens in education and in culture, as in politics.

From the first electric lights in London along Pall Mall, and in the Holborn Viaduct in 1878 to the nationalisation of National Grid in 1947, the narrative of the simple ascendency of a new technology over its outdated predecessor is essential to the way we have imagined electric light in London at the end of the nineteenth century. However, as this thesis will demonstrate, the interplay between gas and electric light - two co-existing and competing illuminary technologies - created a particular and peculiar landscape of light, a 'lightscape', setting London apart from its contemporaries throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, this narrative forms the basis of many assertions made in critical discussions of artificial illumination and technology in the late-twentieth century; however, this was not how electric light was understood at the time nor does it capture how electric light both captivated and eluded the imagination of contemporary Londoners. The influence of the electric light in the representations of London is certainly a literary question, as many of those writing during this period of electrification are particularly attentive to the city's rich and diverse lightscape. Though this has yet to be made explicit in existing scholarship, electric lights are the nexus of several important and ongoing discourses in the study of Victorian, Post-Victorian, Modernist, and twentieth-century literature. This thesis will address how the literary influence of the electric light and its relationship with its illuminary predecessors transcends the widespread electrification of London to engage with an imaginary London, providing not only a connection with our past experiences and conceptions of the city, modernity, and technology but also an understanding of what Frank Mort describes as the 'long cultural reach of the nineteenth century into the post-war period'.