This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of
the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan
Paul Trench and Trübner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to
1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its present, and
predicted its future. Contributors included J. B. S. Haldane,
Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia
Pankhurst, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred
Holtby, André Maurois, and many others. The study combines a
comprehensive account of its interest, history, and range with a
discussion of its key concerns, tropes, and influence. The argument
focuses on science and technology, not only as the subject of many
of the volumes, but also as method—especially through the
paradigm of the human sciences—applied to other disciplines; and
as a source of metaphors for representing other domains. It also
includes chapters on war, technology, cultural studies, and
literature and the arts. Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and
Modernity aims to reinstate the series as a vital contribution to
the writing of modernity, and to reappraise modernism's relation to
the future, establishing a body of progressive writing which moves
beyond the discourses of post-Darwinian degeneration and post-war
disenchantment, projecting human futures rather than mythic or
classical pasts. It also shows how, as a co-ordinated body of
futurological writing, the series is also revealing about the
nature and practices of modern futurology itself.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2023 |
| Authors: |
Max Saunders
(Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture)
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 157 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
448 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-888644-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-888644-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780198886440 |
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