Cover of Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Book 2018

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Publisher
Lexington Books
Published
2018
  • Utopias in literature
  • English fiction
  • History and criticism
  • Dystopias in literature
  • Human beings in literature
  • State, The, in literature
  • Psychology in literature
  • Science fiction

"This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works of Thomas 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"--