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 Trubner (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 McDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred
Holtby, Andre 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. This book 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.
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