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Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris

Landscape and Space

Herausgegeben: Godfrey, Emelyne

Beschreibung

This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth century's greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space is a key factor in utopian fiction, often a barometer of mankind's successful relationship with nature, or an indicator of danger. Emerging and critically acclaimed scholars consider the legacy of two great utopian writers, exploring their use of space and time in the creation of sites in which contemporary social concerns are investigated and reordered. A variety of locations is featured, including Morris's quasi-fourteenth century London, the lush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English countryside, the high-rises of the future and the vertiginous landscape of another Earth beyond the stars.

Autor

Emelyne Godfrey is Publicity Officer of the H.G. Wells Society. She graduated with a PhD from Birkbeck College in 2008 and is author of Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes (2012) and Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature (2010), published by Palgrave Macmillan. In 2014 she edited The Convert, the first suffragette novel, originally published in 1907.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-52339-6
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781137523396
• ISBN-10: 1137523395
• Artikelnr.: 44949850

Rezensionen

"This collection of essays highlights and interrogates the differences between Wells's and Morris's respective worldviews, but it also approaches their own interdisciplinary visions through a variety of methodologies. ... the breadth and variety of approaches in Godfrey's collection are commendable. Because methodological scope is so broad, each major section is curated thoughtfully and manageably. ... the collection surveys with depth and interest the influence of both writers on each other, on their environments, and on scholarship and post-nineteenth-century fiction." (Kameron Sanzo, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, July, 2017)