Maxim Shadurski

The Nationality of Utopia

H. G. Wells, England, and the World State

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Produktbeschreibung

The Nationality of Utopia investigates utopia's capacity to deconstruct and redeploy national discourse in ways that surpass fear and nostalgia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781032090139
• ISBN-10: 1032090138
• Artikelnr.: 62151296

Autorenporträt

Maxim Shadurski holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Literary Utopias from More to Huxley: The Issues of Genre Poetics and Semiosphere. Finding an Island (2007) and Utopia as a World Model: The Boundaries and Borderlands of a Literary Phenomenon (2016), as well as essays on utopia, nationalism, and landscape. He edits The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society and serves as an academic advisor for the Gale/Cengage publishing group. He is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Siedlce University (Poland).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. English Utopia and Utopian England
Chapter 2. The Wellsian Utopia and the Discourse of England
Chapter 3. England in Transition: Memory, Politics, and Technology
Chapter 4. England Redeemed: The Road, the Rose, and the Dream
Chapter 5. The End of England: Eugenics, Landscape, and Recollection
Coda: England for England's Sake?
Bibliography
Index