Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel

ISBN-13: 9781108498708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 276 str.

Caroline Edwards

Opis

Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.

Recenzje

'Edwards offers a convincing analysis of how contemporary British Fiction has drawn upon the resources of [science fiction] and other non-mimetic devices in order to prise open the utopian potentials within the present moment … an essential book for [science fiction] readers …' Paul March Russel, Foundation

Spis treści

1. Introduction: daily into the blue; 2. Reading fictions of the not yet; 3. Death: moments of possibility; 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times; 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures; 6. Epilogue: world as home.