The Cambridge companion to utopian literature / edited by Gregory Claeys.
Claeys, Gregory.
2010
PN56.U8 C36 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to utopian literature / edited by Gregory Claeys.
ISBN 9780521886659 (alk. paper)
0521886651 (alk. paper)
9780521714143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0521714141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description xvi, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN56.U8 C36 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.93372
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Claeys, Gregory.
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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