To-day and To-morrow Reader

To-day and To-morrow Reader

Future Speculations from the 1920s and Early 1930s

Saunders, Max

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2024

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9781032625485

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Science and Technology

Complete texts

J. B. S. Haldane, Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1923)

Bertrand Russell, Icarus; or, the Future of Science (1924)

A. M. Low, Wireless Possibilities (1924)

L. L. Whyte, Archimedes; or, the Future of Physics (1927)

J. D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul (1929)

Excerpts

From: H. S. Jennings, Prometheus; or, Biology and the Advancement of Man (1925)

From: H. Stafford Hatfield, Automaton; or, the Future of the Mechanical Man (1928)

From: J. H. Jeans, Eos; or, the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony (1929)

Part II: Society, Politics, and Gender

Complete texts

Dora Russell, Hypatia; or, Woman and Knowledge (1925)

Bertrand Russell, What I Believe (1925)

Vera Brittain, Halcyon; or, the Future of Monogamy (1929)

Excerpts

From: E. E Fournier d'Albe, Quo Vadimus? Some Glimpses of the Future (1925)

From: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Kalki; or, the Future of Civilization (1929)

From: M. Chaning Pearce, Chiron; or, the Education of a Citizen of the World (1931)

From: Ralph de Pomerai, Aphrodite; or, the Future of Sexual Relationships (1931)

Part III: Culture, Media, and the Arts

Complete texts

Vernon Lee, Proteus; or, the Future of Intelligence (1925)

Bonamy Dobree, Timotheus; or, the Future of the Theatre (1925)

John Rodker, The Future of Futurism (1926)

Excerpts

From: Lionel R. McColvin, Euterpe; or, the Future of Art (1926)

From: 'John Carruthers' (pseud. of J. Y. T. Greig), Scheherazade; or, the future of the English Novel (1927)

From: Robert Graves, Lars Porsena; or, the Future of Swearing and Improper Language (1927)

Index
modernity;Bertrand Russell;Vera Brittain;Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan;Robert Graves;J. B. S. Haldane;J. D. Bernal;Sir James Jeans;modernism;twentieth-century literature