Waging Future Wars

This is to announce a new essay, focusing on The Reign of George VI, a XVIII-century speculative fiction. This research aims at fostering a better understanding of how future wars were imagined in European literature, against the backdrop, on the one hand, of the cultural history of time and, on the other, within the context of the crisis of the European temporal mind during the eighteenth century.[1] It does this by analysing a fascinating early futuristic fiction, The Reign of George VI. 1...