TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cole, Sarah
TI  - Inventing tomorrow: : H.G. Wells and the twentieth century
SN  - 9780231193139
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press 
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - English fiction
N2  - 
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
ER  -