Cecil D. Eby (1927–2015)
Autor de The siege of the Alcazar
Sobre El Autor
Cecil D. Eby is a retired Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Obras de Cecil D. Eby
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1927-08-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2015-02-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- Professor of English, University of Michigan (retired)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 115
- Popularidad
- #170,830
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 2
I did quite like Eby's stats: he reveals that between 1871 and 1914, there were 60-plus invasion narratives published in book or pamphlet form (so that's not counting ones published in periodicals). Germany was the aggressor in 41 of them, France 18 times, Russia 8 times, and then China, Japan, the U.S., and Mars all had one or so goes. No wonder Britain was so pumped for World War I when it finally happened! I was a little disappointed that it seemed like Eby hadn't read George Griffith-- some of his statements about the genre seemed to come from someone who hadn't read Angel of the Revolution (1893), which I would argue is the apex of the invasion genre, and as important a precursor to science fiction as H. G. Wells's work.
As a former Boy Scout (is one always a Boy Scout?) I found the chapter on the early days of Scouting fascinating: Baden-Powell was a magnificently reprehensible bastard. We've heard the stories of World War I going on pause and the combatants playing sports, but when the Boers asked Baden-Powell for a Sunday reprieve to play cricked, Baden-Powell turned them down because the English were winning the only war that mattered, the battle itself. For Baden-Powell, the Boer War was a jolly caper and a place for him to commit atrocities, and he went back to England to transform its weakling city boys into something more like Boer boys he had seen in South Africa, training his young Boy Scouts to defend their home country at all costs. Empire was the only important game.… (más)