Utopian Literature and Science [electronic resource] : From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond /
Parrinder, Patrick.author.
Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PrefaceAcknowledgements1. IntroductionPART I: SCIENCES OF OBSERVATION AND INTERVENTION2. Beyond the Telescope: From Astronomy to (Dystopian) Fiction3. A Sylph under the Microscope: Science and Romance4. Satanism and Genetics: Haldane's Daedalus and Its BegettersPART II: THE HUMAN ANIMAL5. Eugenics, Utopia, Eudemonics: Bellamy, Galton and Morris6. Strains of the Non-Human: The Coming Race, A Crystal Age, Erewhon7. Gorilla Warfare: Darwin, Freud, and the Stone Age Romance8. From Human to Animal: Wells and KafkaPART III: MODERN UTOPIAS AND POST-HUMAN WORLDS9. War is Peace: Conscription and Mobilisation in the Modern Utopia10. Towards the Singularity? Capek's R.U.R. and its Times11. Olaf Stapledon and the Shape of Things to Come12. The Expulsion of the PoetsNotesBibliographyIndex.
Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.