Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch - Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-; ebrary, Inc. (Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Dystopias in literature; Electronic books