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100 1 $aSaunders, Max,$eauthor.
245 10 $aImagined futures :$bwriting, science and modernity in the To-day and To-morrow book series, 1923-31 /$cMax Saunders.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2019.
300 $aix, 423 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aThis 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. 0The 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.0This 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.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aTwentieth century$vForecasts.
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650 7 $aTwentieth century.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01159810
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648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aForecasts.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01424052
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