H. G. Wells: Discoverer of the Future: The Influence of Science on His Thought

Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 The Conversion to Science....Pages 11-38 Scientific Method and Wells’s Credentials....Pages 39-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Science and Technology....Pages 69-81 Science and Government — the Wellsian Utopia....Pages 82-111 Waste and Disorder or Order and Uniformity?....Pages 112-126 Free Will and Predestination: Freedom and Limitation....Pages 127-142 Science as Myth and Mysticism....Pages 143-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Wells’s Concept of the Individual....Pages 163-196 The Scientist as a Literary Character....Pages 197-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Techniques of Persuasion and Presentation....Pages 221-240 Art, Science and Structure: the Debate with Henry James....Pages 241-252 Back Matter....Pages 253-283