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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2010
      August 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511781582
      9780521886659
      9780521714143
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521886659
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 316 Pages
      • Collection:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
      Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.

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