Author’s response to Cooke’s critique of ‘H. G. Wells melancholy: The Anatomy of Frustration ’ (2024)

This brief submission is a response to Bill Cooke's critique of my article 'H. G. Wells melancholy: The Anatomy of Frustration' (2024), published in this journal. I accept the points he makes but suggest that the antisemitism that inheres in Wells's 1936 work warrants careful consideration – it is neither incidental nor a moment of mere foolishness, rather, it is key to understanding the contradiction between Wells's Platonic utopianism and his liberal aspirations. In addition, I respond to Cooke's assertion that my discussion of Wells's final work, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945), is 'my least developed' argument.