Religious Orientations of H. G. Wells: a Case Study in Scientific Humanism
The literary career of H. G. Wells began in the reign of Victoria and extended beyond World War II. For some three decades down into the 1930's his ideas on the human situation and the probable future of mankind were as much a part of the popular mind as those of anyone else writing in English....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1972]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1972, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 117-135 |
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| Summary: | The literary career of H. G. Wells began in the reign of Victoria and extended beyond World War II. For some three decades down into the 1930's his ideas on the human situation and the probable future of mankind were as much a part of the popular mind as those of anyone else writing in English. In the last decade of his life, however, there was a sharp decline of interest in Wells which brought him to almost total eclipse by his death in 1946. He had reflected important facets of the mind of an age, and that age had passed. Even at the height of his fame, as we can see clearly now, he was not in the first rank of literary figures and was much less sensitive to what was happening in the West than Eliot or Conrad or even Aldous Huxley. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000002406 |