Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel

Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.

Table des matières

1. Introduction: daily into the blue; 2. Reading fictions of the not yet; 3. Death: moments of possibility; 4. Transmigration: networking utopian times; 5. Apocalypse: co-evolutionary futures; 6. Epilogue: world as home.

A propos de l'auteur

Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work on living writers has led to two co-edited books: China Miéville: Critical Essays (2015) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (2015). Caroline has published in a number of journals, including Telos, Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, ASAP/Journal, Contemporary Literature, Subjectivity, Times Higher Education and New Statesman. Caroline is a founding member of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) and a director of the scholarly publisher Open Library of Humanities.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Caroline Edwards, Caroline (Birkbeck College Edwards, Edwards Caroline
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108498708
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49870-8
• Pages: 276
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-Fi; Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000