Narrating utopia : ideology, gender, form in utopian literature / Chris Ferns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferns, C. S. (Christopher S.), author.

Series:

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 19.

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias in literature.

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organising the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveller's tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing.

Contents:

The utopian dream of order: more and his successors

Bellamy and wells: the dream of order in the modern world

Dystopia: the dream as nightmare

Libertarian alternatives: Morris, News from nowhere; Bogdanov, Red star; Huxley; Island

A world of one's own: separatist utopias

Dreams of freedom: Piercy, Le Guin, and the future of Utopia.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78138-064-3

1-84631-362-7

OCLC:

476209511