Max Saunders

Imagined Futures

Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31

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Produktbeschreibung

The first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series which published 110 books from 1923 to 1931 and included works by J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh McDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, and Andr¿aurois.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780198829454
• ISBN-10: 0198829450
• Artikelnr.: 56397946

Autorenporträt

Max Saunders became Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham in 2019. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and was a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1996); and Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Oxford University Press 2010). He has edited five volumes of Ford's writing, including an annotated critical edition of Some Do Not...(Carcanet, 2010), and has published essays on Life-writing, on Impressionism, and on a number of modern writers. As Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London, he directed the College's Arts and Humanities Research Institute from 2012-18. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to research his latest book, Imagined Futures (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introductions
* PART I: Science, Imagination, Language, and Communication
* 1: A Scientific Age': Science, Imagination, and Popularization
* 2: Conflict, Connectivity, and the Tropes of Futurology
* PART II: Human Sciences
* 3: Human Sciences
* PART III: Technology, Media, Culture and the Arts
* 4: 'The machine man of 1925': To-Day and To-Morrow and the
Technological Extension of Man
* 5: To-Day and To-Morrow, Cultural Studies, and Everyday Life
* 6: To-Day and To-Morrow, Literature and Modernism
* Conclusions
* Appendix A: The Book History of the Series
* Appendix B: Complete Chronological Listing of the To-Day and
To-Morrow Series