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Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch / Peter Edgerly Firchow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Utopias in literature.
- Dystopias in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book aims to put the fiction back into utopian fictions.While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary--possibly as a reaction not only against the "social scientification" of modern utopias but also.
- Contents:
- H.G. Wells's Time machine and the end of utopia
- Shaw's Major Barbara : what price utopia?
- Utopia and the end of history : Huxley, Fukuyama, Marcuse
- George Orwell's dystopias : from Animal farm to Nineteen eighty-four
- William Golding's Lord of the flies : an island utopia?
- Subjectivity and utopia in Iris Murdoch's The bell.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1605-2
- OCLC:
- 707926652
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