Imagined Futures (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
448
Utgivningsdatum
2023-06-08
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Dimensioner
233 x 158 x 24 mm
Vikt
681 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780198886440

Imagined Futures

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

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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 MacDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, and Andr Maurois.
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John McGowan, Modernism/modernity In his entertaining and fascinating new book, Imagined Futures, Saunders offers a bracing counter-history, overturning both our received notion of the disillusionment following World War I and challenging our by-now habitual and complacent pessimism. I defy any reader of Saunders book to come away indifferent to the treasure trove he has uncovered. Just his quotations from the thirty or so volumes he discusses in some detail whets this readers appetite. The writing is lively, and the imaginations on display energizing. He devotes chapters to the natural sciences, the human sciences, technology, the everyday, literature, and the genre of futurology. Some of these chapters are more satisfying than others, but every single one will, I am certain, provide inspiration for subsequent scholars. Again and again, Saunders exhibits the impressive imaginations of these scientists.

Patrick Parrinder, An Encyclopedia of Futurity, Science-Fiction Studies Max Saunders has produced what will surely be the definitive study of To-Day and To-Morrow. Perhaps the outstanding feature of Imagined Futures is the breadth of its coverage of the series and its implications. Virtually every To-Day and To-Morrow volume receives probing and erudite commentary in successive chapters devoted to the natural sciences, politics, the human sciences, technology, everyday life, and literature and the arts. In the vast majority of cases, he succeeds in arousing our curiosity. Anyone interested in the confluence of sf and futurology will want to read this book. Saunders has made a deeply insightful and thought-provoking contribution to the field that is becoming known as critical futurities scholarship.

Maxim Shadurski, Modern Language Review Highly comprehensive and insightful, this landmark study offers a critical re-evaluation of modernism against the background of twentieth-century futurology.

Alan Judd, The Spectator Saunders is an authority on the literary and cultural currents of the early 20th century, particularly modernism, and takes pains to show how this extraordinary sustained exercise in futurology emerges from that world and merges into our own. That is why this is an important book. OUP have done author and subject proud by producing a handsome volume

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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).

Innehållsförteckning

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