The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State

ISBN-13: 9781032090139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Maxim Shadurski

Opis

The Nationality of Utopia investigates utopia’s capacity to deconstruct and redeploy national discourse in ways that surpass fear and nostalgia.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. English Utopia and Utopian England

Chapter 2. The Wellsian Utopia and the Discourse of England

Chapter 3. England in Transition: Memory, Politics, and Technology

Chapter 4. England Redeemed: The Road, the Rose, and the Dream

Chapter 5. The End of England: Eugenics, Landscape, and Recollection

Coda: England for England’s Sake?

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Maxim Shadurski holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Literary Utopias from More to Huxley: The Issues of Genre Poetics and Semiosphere. Finding an Island (2007) and Utopia as a World Model: The Boundaries and Borderlands of a Literary Phenomenon (2016), as well as essays on utopia, nationalism, and landscape. He edits The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society and serves as an academic advisor for the Gale/Cengage publishing group. He is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Siedlce University (Poland).