Utopian Fantasy: A Study of English Utopian Fiction since the End of the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367361303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Richard Gerber

Opis

This book, originally published in 1955 and reissued in 1973, is a study of the flourishing of an ancient literary form which had only recently been recognized and systematically studied as a proper genre – utopian fiction.

Spis treści

Preface to the Second Edition.  Prefatory Note.  Introduction.  Part 1: The Evolutionary Setting  1. The Rise of Utopian Humanism  2. Man and Superman  3. The Problem of Survival  Part 2: Social Conflicts  1. Utopia, Arcadian and Scientific  2. Science and Religion  3. Mass and Class  4. The Servile State  Part 3: Aesthetic Concretion  1. Utopian Fantasy  2. Ironical Realism  3. Symbolical Journeys  4. Towards the Novel  5. Literary Achievement.  Notes.  Appendix: An Annotated List of English Utopian Fantasies 1901–1951.  Appendix: An Annotated List of English Utopian Fantasies 1952–1971.  Bibliography.  Additional Bibliography.  Index.