The Cambridge companion to British utopian literature and culture since 1945 /

"Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written by leading scholars, it presents a wide-ranging account of utopian thinking in novels, plays, films, TV, and poetry. Scholars and students will find analyses of British writers ta...

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Other Authors: Edwards, Caroline, 1983- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • he topian impulse in British literature and culture since 1945
  • Part I. The dream of imperial ruins ; Cosy catastrophes: ambivalent utopias / Roger Luckhurst ; The 1960s: new wave, new worlds / Tom Dillon ; Post-imperial melancholy in the long 1970s / Andrew M. Butler
  • Part II. Building new communities ; The British counterculture, utopia, and class / David Wilkinson ; Staging utopian subjects: contemporary British theatre beyond the barriers / Siân Adiseshiah ; Utopian communities in Scottish fiction / Timothy C. Baker