Modern Utopian Fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris Murdoch

• Author(s): Peter Edgerly Firchow,
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Pages: 223
• ISBN_10: 0813214777
  ISBN_13: 9780813214771
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... 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.