Narrating Utopia [electronic resource] : Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature
Ferns, Chris.
Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organising 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 traveller's tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian w
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Introduction; Dreams of Order; Dreams of Freedom; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organising 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 traveller's tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian w
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 29, 2014).
Science fiction.
Utopias in literature.
Literature - General
Languages & Literatures