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100 1 $aFirchow, Peter Edgerly,$d1937-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82256242
245 10 $aModern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch /$cPeter Edgerly Firchow.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bCatholic University of America Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axv, 203 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tH.G. Wells's Time machine and the end of utopia -- $g2.$tShaw's Major Barbara : what price utopia? -- $g3.$tUtopia and the end of history : Huxley, Fukuyama, Marcuse -- $g4.$tGeorge Orwell's dystopias : from Animal farm to Nineteen eighty-four -- $g5.$tWilliam Golding's Lord of the flies : an island utopia? -- $g6.$tSubjectivity and utopia in Iris Murdoch's The bell.
520 1 $a"Criticism on utopian subjects has generally neglected the literary or fictional dimension of utopia. The reason for such neglect may be that earlier utopian fictions tended to be written by what one would nowadays call social scientists, e.g., Plato or Sir Thomas More. That is also why earlier discussions of utopian fiction were usually written by critics trained in the social sciences rather than by critics trained in literature. To an appreciable degree this still tends to be the case today." "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 in reaction against the modern attempt to institute "utopia" in reality, notably in the former Soviet Union but also in consumerist, late-twentieth-century America. After an introductory discussion of how we understand - and how we should understand - modern utopian fictions, the book provides several examples of how those understandings affect our appreciation of utopian fiction. There are chapters on H.G. Wells's Time Machine; Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; William Golding's Lord of the Flies; and Iris Murdoch's The Bell."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103094
650 0 $aUtopias in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141637
650 0 $aDystopias in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96002302
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006009565.html
852 00 $bglx$hPR888.U7$iF57 2007