Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch /
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| Author / Creator: | Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937- |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11246857 |
| 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 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813216058 0813216052 9780813215730 0813215730 0813214777 9780813214771 |