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03691aam a2200445 i 4500 001 E4006AFA166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 190327s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019006298 020 $a 0231193122 020 $a 9780231193122 035 $a (OCoLC)1096216155 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d NYP $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR5777 $b .C58 2020 082 00 $a 823/.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Cole, Sarah $e author. 245 10 $a Inventing tomorrow : $b H.G. Wells and the twentieth century / $c Sarah Cole. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 374 pages : $b illustration ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-359) and index. 505 0 $a Voice -- Civilian -- Time -- Biology -- Conclusion : the world. 600 10 $a Wells, H. G. $q (Herbert George), $d 1866-1946 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Wells, H. G. $q (Herbert George), $d 1866-1946. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00037177 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z Great Britain. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Cole, Sarah, author. $t Inventing tomorrow $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] $z 9780231550161 $w (DLC) 2019016439 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015201.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204014516.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E4006AFA166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search