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    Inventing tomorrow : H.G. Wells and the twentieth century (2020)
    New York :Columbia University Press,
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    almahu_BV046177225
    Format: XI, 374 Seiten : , Illustration.
    ISBN: 978-0-231-19312-2
    Content: Voice -- Civilian -- Time -- Biology -- Conclusion : the world
    Content: "Through his fiction, H. G. Wells brought to the world such concepts as the 'time machine' and 'war of the worlds.' His best-selling The Outline of History sold over two million copies and during his lifetime he was invited to meet world leaders such as Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill. Arguably, one of the most famous writers and thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, Wells's work and ideas have largely been marginalized or relegated to his work as a science-fiction novelist. In 'The Wells Era,' Sarah Cole demonstrates that his work not only shaped the political and intellectual dimensions of the previous century but embodies the spirit of twentieth century literature at its most expansive and historically engaged. Cole re-reads Wells as a writer whose engagement with technology, war, history, and the globe resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernist works. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a proud and pressing place in the world and public debate. He could not only masterfully create worlds but also developed a new model of writing that mixed fiction, history, politics, and economics with an aim to entertain, provoke, and instruct. Moreover, in writing works of literature, history, and science, Wells was distinct in twentieth-century literary history in his ability to shape the political and intellectual imagination of the past century and reach a range of readers. In a series of close readings, Cole details the many ways Wells's work and life informed and changes our understanding of the character of twentieth-century literature and how it engages with the costs of war, the question of 'life,' and the moral responsibility to imagine a new global future"--
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-55016-1
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HM 4755
    Keywords: 1866-1946 Wells, H. G. ; Modernismus
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 2
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    Inventing tomorrow : H. G. Wells and the twentieth century (2019)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    UID:
    gbv_1687255873
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 374 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9780231550161
    Content: 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 “time machine,” “war of the worlds,” and “atomic bomb,” exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity’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 Wells’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 Wells’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 literature’s moral responsibility to imagine a better global future
    Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Voice -- 2. Civilian -- 3. Time -- 4. Biology -- Conclusion: The World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Bibliographie: Seite 349-359 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780231193122
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cole, Sarah Inventing tomorrow New York : Columbia University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780231193122
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HM 4755
    Keywords: Wells, H. G. 1866-1946
    DOI: 10.7312/cole19312
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    URL: lizenzpflichtig
    URL: Cover
    URL: Cover
    URL: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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  • 3
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    Inventing Tomorrow : H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century (2019)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34355092
    Format: 392 Seiten
    ISBN: 9780231193122
    Content: 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 "time machine," "war of the worlds," and "atomic bomb," exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity'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 Wells'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 Wells'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 literature's moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
    Note: Englisch
    Language: English
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    Inventing Tomorrow : H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century (2019)
    New York, NY :Columbia University Press,
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    UID:
    edocfu_9959870352902883
    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 0-231-55016-2
    Content: 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 "time machine," "war of the worlds," and "atomic bomb," exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity'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 Wells'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 Wells'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 literature's moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. Voice -- , 2. Civilian -- , 3. Time -- , 4. Biology -- , Conclusion: The World -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-19312-2
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HM 4755
    DOI: 10.7312/cole19312
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