Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch /

Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-

Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch / Peter Edgerly Firchow. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007. - xv, 203 p. ; 23 cm.

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.

0813214777 (alk. paper) 9780813215730

2006009565


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

PR888.U7 / F57 2007

823.9109372 / FPM