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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Utopias in literature.
Dystopias in literature.
Utopias -- History.
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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The Cambridge compan...
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The Cambridge companion to utopian literature / edited by Gregory Claeys.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects
Utopias in literature.
Dystopias in literature.
Utopias -- History.
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9780521714143 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
0521714141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Cambridge companions to topics.
Description:
295 p.; 24 cm.
Contents:
The concept of utopia / Fátima Vieira -- Thomas More's Utopia : sources, legacy, and interpretation / J.C. Davis -- Utopianism after More : the Renaissance and Enlightenment / Nicole Phol -- Paradise transformed : varieties of nineteenth-century utopias / Kenneth M. Roemer -- The origins of dystopia : Wells, Huxley and Orwell / Gergory Claeys -- Utopia, dystopia and science fiction / Peter Fitting -- Utopia and romance / Patrick Parrinder -- Feminism and utopianism / Alessa Johns -- Colonial and postcolonial utopias / Lyman Tower Sargent -- 'Non-western' utopian traditions / Jacqueline Dutton -- Ecology and dystopia / Brian Stableford.
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"Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship"--
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
809.93372 Ca
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