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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature
By Chris Ferns
276 pages
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Synopsis
Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organizing the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveler�2s tale and the classical dialogue that emerges ...
Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organizing the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveler�2s tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing. "�5 a well-written and worthy addition to the filed of utopian studies."--SFRA Review
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Table of contents
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- Narrating Utopia *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Acknowledgments viii
- Preface ix
- 1 - Introduction 1
- Dreams of Order *
- 2 - The Utopian Dream of Order: More and His Successors 31
- 3 - Bellamy and Wells: the Dream of Order in the Modern World 67
- 4 - Dystopia: the Dream as Nightmare 105
- Dreams of Freedom *
- 5 - Libertarian Alternatives: Morris News from Nowhere; Bogdanov, Red Star; Huxley, Island 141
- 6 - A World of One's Own: Separatist Utopias 176
- 7 - Dreams of Freedom: Piercy, le Guin, and the Future of Utopia 202
- Notes 237
- Bibliography 256
- Narrating Utopia *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Acknowledgments viii
- Preface ix
- 1 - Introduction 1
- Dreams of Order *
- 2 - The Utopian Dream of Order: More and His Successors 31
- 3 - Bellamy and Wells: the Dream of Order in the Modern World 67
- 4 - Dystopia: the Dream as Nightmare 105
- Dreams of Freedom *
- 5 - Libertarian Alternatives: Morris News from Nowhere; Bogdanov, Red Star; Huxley, Island 141
- 6 - A World of One's Own: Separatist Utopias 176
- 7 - Dreams of Freedom: Piercy, le Guin, and the Future of Utopia 202
- Notes 237
- Bibliography 256
- Index 265
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