 | Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century Subjects: Wells H. G. (Herbert George) 1866–1946 -- Criticism and interpretation; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells's work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought, arguing that he embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. Sarah Cole is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and dean of humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (2003) and At the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland (2012). |
