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OverviewH.G. Wells has been branded as a novelist who betrayed his vocation. But Wells saw himself as what we would today call a public intellectual. How credible is this claim? And what happens when we look at him in this way? So typecast has Wells’s reputation become that neither of these questions has been previously asked, but when we look at Wells as a thinker we find a whole new quality to his later works, which have invariably been dismissed by literary scholars as of low quality or even not worth reading. In particular, Wells’s prescience as a prophet of our current environmental problems stands out - for example, he foresaw anthropogenic climate change as early as 1931. Popular conceptions of Wells as racist, imperialist and eugenicist are also challenged. What emerges is a new perspective on a significant public intellectual and- pioneering prophet of the twenty-first century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bill CookePublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 79 ISBN: 9781837645114ISBN 10: 1837645116 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBill Cooke was formerly a teacher of philosophy at Priestley College, Warrington. He is the author of numerous books including A Rebel to His Last Breath: Joseph McCabe and Rationalism (2001), The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association (2004), A Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism (2006) and A Wealth of Insights: Humanist Thought Since the Enlightenment (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |