Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-

Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch [electronic resource] / Peter Edgerly Firchow. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007. - xv, 203 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.

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.


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English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Utopias in literature.
Dystopias in literature.


Electronic books.

PR888.U7 / F57 2007eb

823/.9109372