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H.G.Wells

Discoverer of the Future

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  • © 1980
  • Latest edition

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Authors:
  1. Roslynn D. Haynes

  • 199 Accesses

  • 176 Citations

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 1-8

  3. Wells’s Scientific Background. Scientist or Visionary?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Conversion to Science

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 11-38

    3. Scientific Method and Wells’s Credentials

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 39-66

  4. Science in Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Science and Technology

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 69-81

    3. Science and Government — the Wellsian Utopia

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 82-111

    4. Waste and Disorder or Order and Uniformity?

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 112-126

    5. Free Will and Predestination: Freedom and Limitation

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 127-142

    6. Science as Myth and Mysticism

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 143-159

  5. Science and the Approach to Characterisation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Wells’s Concept of the Individual

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 163-196

    3. The Scientist as a Literary Character

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 197-218

  6. Wells’s Techniques and His Approach to Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. Techniques of Persuasion and Presentation

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 221-240

    3. Art, Science and Structure: the Debate with Henry James

      • Roslynn D. Haynes
      Pages 241-252

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 253-283
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