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

Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells's work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought, arguing that he embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Voice
2. Civilian
3. Time
4. Biology
Conclusion: The World
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sarah Cole is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and dean of humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (2003) and At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (2012).

Summary

Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells’s work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought, arguing that he embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged.

Additional text

A magisterial book...beautifully written and persuasive throughout.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Cole
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780231193139
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19313-9
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000