Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch /

Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch /

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Author / Creator:	Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 203 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Dystopias in literature. Dystopias in literature. English fiction. Utopias in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11246857

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ISBN:	9780813216058 0813216052 9780813215730 0813215730 0813214777 9780813214771
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937- Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007 0813214777

Table of 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.