Paper Sources for Wells/Watchmen

Below are a few (but not all, of course) sources you might want to consult en route to your Paper #1. Remember, knowing the conversation of a given literary topic, whether it's Shakespeare or Science Fiction, gives you more to write about and respond to.  In the end, whenever you write a paper, you're entering a conversation that has been going on for years or centuries, so there's no need to reinvent the wheel.  Hearing what people outside of class have to say on the subject will not only jump start your paper, but will make you more knowledgeable on the topic itself.  Below are some places to start, but be sure to search EBSCO and JSTOR for more options if these don't work for you.  

The Invisible Man

* Christopher Priests' Introduction to the Penguin Edition: this is an excellent introduction by an acclaimed master of modern science fiction (he wrote the novel, The Prestige, which became a film not long ago with Christian Bale).  

*  Primitive Modernity: H. G. Wells and the Prehistoric Man of the 1890s

Richard Pearson The Yearbook of English StudiesVol. 37, No. 1, From Decadent to Modernist: And Other Essays (2007), pp. 58-74 (via JSTOR)
* An appreciation of H.G. Wells, novelist.  Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934 Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Library, 1996  (ECU library)

* The future as nightmare; H. G. Wells and the anti-utopians.  Hillegas, Mark Robert, 1926-New York, Oxford University Press, 1967  (ECU library)

* H. G. Wells.  Parrinder, Patrick New York : Putnam, c1977 (ECU library)

*  The ECU Library also has copies of many of his other novels, notably The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, among others.  

Watchmen

* Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach test.  ed. Mark White.  Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.  (in ECU library)

* Keating, E.  The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen.  Journal of Popular Culture, 2012, Dec. (EBSCO)

* Miettinen, Mervi.  Men of Steel?  Rorschach, Theweleit, and Watchmen’s Deconstructed Masculinity.  Political Science and Politics 47.1 (2014) (EBSCO) 

*  Barnes, David.  Time in the Gutter: Temporal Structures in Watchmen.  Kronoscope 9 ½ (2009) (EBSCO)

* Dubose, Mike.  Holding Out for a Hero: Reganism, Comic Book Vigilantes, and Captain America.  Journal of Popular Culture 40.6 (2007) (EBSCO)