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Wasted value: The serial logic of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay

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From: Novel
Date: 19991001
Author:Kupinse, William

In a passage just before the midpoint of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, one of the most telling examples of what would come to be called the Condition of England genre,1 George Ponderevo's childhood friend Ewart, a hard-drinking, itinerant artist prone to spouting Nietzschean aphorisms, visits the fac tory where the narrator and his uncle Edward produce the novel's spurious, eponymous product. Speaking as "one artist to another," Ewart lectures Edward on aesthetic and economic value; indeed, in Ewart's sarcastic rendering, the two forms are inseparable (169). Praising the Ponderevo operation for ...

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