1st Edition

Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction

By Nan Bowman Albinski Copyright 1988
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Utopian writing offers a fascinating panorama of social visions; and the related forms of dystopia and anti-utopian satire extend this into the range of social nightmares. Originally published in 1988, this comparative study of utopian fiction by British and American women writers demonstrates the continuity of a well-established, but little-known, tradition, emphasising its range and diversity,... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  1. A Nation Transformed  2. Individualism and the Ties of the Community  3. A Crisis of the Spirit  4. A Widening World, a Narrowing Sphere  5. Living in the Ruins  6. ‘When it Changed’.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Nan Bowman Albinski