Imagined futures : writing, science, and modernity in the To-day and To-morrow book series, 1923-31 / Max Saunders.
2019
PR808.F6
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Title
Imagined futures : writing, science, and modernity in the To-day and To-morrow book series, 1923-31 / Max Saunders.
Author
Saunders, Max, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191880483 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PR808.F6
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9355
Summary
This study provides a substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trübner (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, André 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. The 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.
Note
This study provides a substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trübner (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, André 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. The 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 21, 2019).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198829454
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