TY  - GEN
T1  - Maps of utopia : H.G. Wells, modernity, and the end of culture
A1  - James, Simon J.
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn794730186
AB  - H.G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. "Maps of Utopia" tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, prophecy, and utopia, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction. This book asks what Wells thought literature was, and what he thought it was for. H.G. Wells formulated a literary aesthetics based on scientific principles, designed to improve the world both in the present and for future generations. Unlike Henry James, with whom he famously argued, Wells was not content simply to let literary art be, for its own sake: he wanted to make art instrumental in improving the lives of its readers, by bringing about the founding of the World State that he predicted was man's only alternative to self-destruction.
OP  - 230
CN  - PR5777 .J36 2012
SN  - 9780191640018
SN  - 0191640018
SN  - 9780191738517
SN  - 0191738514
SN  - 1306411432
SN  - 9781306411431
SN  - 9780199606597
SN  - 0199606595
KW  - Wells, H. G. : (Herbert George), : 1866-1946 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Wells, H. G. : (Herbert George), : 1866-1946 : Aesthetics.
KW  - Wells, H. G. : (Herbert George), : 1866-1946
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -