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The to-day and to-morrow reader : future speculations from the 1920s and early 1930s

Title
The to-day and to-morrow reader : future speculations from the 1920s and early 1930s / edited by Max Saunders.
ISBN
103262552X
1040114962
1040115004
9781032625522
9781040114964
9781040115008
9781032625485
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 421 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2024).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Max Saunders is Interdisciplinary Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. He directed the Arts and Humanities Research Institute at King's College London. He works on modernism, future thinking, life writing, and visual culture. His books include Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31 (2019).
Summary
"The To-day and To-morrow book series (1923-31) was a unique publishing phenomenon--over 100 short, often brilliant, books choosing a particular subject, outlining its present state, and then speculating about its future. This Reader brings together some of the best work in the series, including eleven complete volumes and substantial extracts from ten more. To-day and To-morrow is one of the key documents of modernity. It contains some of the best writing of the twentieth century, and some of the most visionary predictions. The contributors were creative writers, scientists, inventors, philosophers, lawyers, doctors and teachers. Included here are Bertrand Russell, Vera Brittain, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Robert Graves and the scientists J.B.S. Haldane, J.D. Bernal, and Sir James Jeans. The topics range from emerging technologies such as the talkies, television, robotics and drones, to speculations about future technologies like test-tube babies, artificial wombs, cyborgs, genetic modification, hormone replacement therapy, space exploration, the internet, and the possibility of hive minds. The books consider how societies will respond to such developments; how the transformations will impact on lives, relationships, beliefs, politics. To-day and To-morrow brings new perspectives to the literature and culture of modernism and modernity for general readers, students and scholars. It sheds new light on twentieth-century literature, culture and society. It offers resources for teachers and students of creative writing--and everyone--facing the challenge of thinking about our future"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: To-day and to-morrow reader Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 03, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Science and Technology
Complete texts
Daedalus, or, Science and the Future (1923) / J.B.S. Haldane
Icarus, or, the Future of Science (1924) / Bertrand Russell
Wireless Possibilities (1924) / A.M. Low
Archimedes, or, The Future of Physics (1927) / L.L. Whyte
The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul (1929) / J.D. Bernal
Excerpts
From: Prometheus, or, Biology and the Advancement of Man (1925) / H.S. Jennings
From: Automaton, or, the Future of the Mechanical Man (1928) / H. Stafford Hatfield
From: Eos, or, the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony (1928) / J.H. Jeans
Part II. Society, Politics, and Gender
Complete texts
Hypatia, or, Woman and Knowledge (1925) / Dora Russell
What I Believe (1925) / Bertrand Russell
Halcyon, or, The Future of Monogamy (1929) / Vera Brittain
Excerpts
From: Quo Vadimus? Glimpses of the Future (1925) / E.E. Fournier d'Albe
From: Kalki, or, the Future of Civilization (1929) / S. Radhakrishnan
From: Chiron, or, the Education of a Citizen of the World (1931) / M. Chaning Pearce
From: Aphrodite, or, The Future of Sexual Relationships (1931) / R. de Pomerai
Part III. Culture, Media and the Arts
Complete texts
Proteus, or, The Future of Intelligence (1925) / Vernon Lee
Timotheus, or, The Future of the Theatre (1925) / Bonamy Dobrée
The Future of Futurism (1926) / John Rodker
Excerpts
From: Euterpe, or, The Future of Art (1926) / Lionel R. McColvin
From: Scheherazade, or, The Future of the English Novel (1927) / John Carruthers (pseud. of J.Y.T. Greig)
From: Lars Porsena, or, The Future of Swearing and Improper Language (1927) / Robert Graves.
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