Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works ofThomas More, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. By teasing out the underlying conceptions of human nature in these novels, this book links the ontology of their works directly to their political prescriptions.

List of contents

Chapter One: The Imperfection of Utopia: The Combination of Reason and Religion in Thomas More
Chapter Two: The Mutability of Human Nature in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
Chapter Three: Technology and Human Nature in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Chapter Four: The Totalitarian State and Human Nature in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

About the author

Nivedita Bagchi is professor at Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Summary

This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works ofThomas More, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. By teasing out the underlying conceptions of human nature in these novels, this book links the ontology of their works directly to their political prescriptions.

Product details

• Authors: Nivedita Bagchi, Nivedita N. Bagchi
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498551663
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5166-3
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film; Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Political science and theory