Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century

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Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century

H. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as â€œtime machine,â€ â€œwar of the worlds,â€ and â€œatomic bomb,â€ exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanityâ€™s place in the universe. Wells was a public intellectual with a worldwide readership. He met with world leaders, including Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill, and his books were international best-sellers. Yet critics and scholars have largely forgotten his accomplishments or relegated them to genre fiction, overlooking their breadth and diversity.

In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wellsâ€™s work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wellsâ€™s limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literatureâ€™s moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780231193122
ReleaseDate 2019-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231193122

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780231193122
ReleaseDate	2019-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231193122

Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century

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