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Author Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-

Title Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch [electronic resource] / Peter Edgerly Firchow.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.

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Description xv, 203 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.
Contents H.G. Wells's Time machine and the end of utopia -- Shaw's Major Barbara : what price utopia? -- Utopia and the end of history : Huxley, Fukuyama, Marcuse -- George Orwell's dystopias : from Animal farm to Nineteen eighty-four -- William Golding's Lord of the flies : an island utopia? -- Subjectivity and utopia in Iris Murdoch's The bell.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Dystopias in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813214777 (alk. paper)
9780813214771 (alk. paper)

 
    
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