Worlds Gone Awry
Subtitle: Essays on Dystopian Fiction
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781476671802
Subjects: Fiction, history and criticism
Description: "This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction"--