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100			_aCole, Sarah _99163
245			_aInventing tomorrow: _bH.G. Wells and the twentieth century
260			_bColumbia University Press  _aNew York _c2021
300			_axi, 374 p.
365			_aUSD _b28.00
520			_a 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.
650			_aModernism (Literature) _911566
650			_aEnglish fiction _91967
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