Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction /

Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bagchi, Nivedita, author.
Imprint:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Politics, Literature, & Film Politics, literature, & film.
Subject:	English fiction -- History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Dystopias in literature. Human beings in literature. State, The, in literature. State, The, in literature. Human beings in literature. English fiction. Dystopias in literature. Psychology in literature. Science 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/13512795

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ISBN:	9781498551670 149855167X 9781498551663 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	"This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works of Thomas More, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. By teasing out the underlying conceptions of human nature in these novels, this book links the ontology of their works directly to their political prescriptions"--
Other form:	Print version: Bagchi, Nivedita, author. Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] 9781498551663

Table of Contents:

The imperfection of utopia: the combination of reason and religion in Thomas More
The mutability of human nature in Edward Bellamy's Looking backward
Technology and human nature in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world
The totalitarian state and human nature in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four.