Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction / / Nivedita Bagchi
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Bagchi Nivedita
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| Titolo: |
Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction / / Nivedita Bagchi
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2019] |
| ©2019 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (101 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 823.009 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - History and criticism |
| Nota di contenuto: | The imperfection of utopia: the combination of reason and religion in Thomas More -- The mutability of human nature in Edward Bellamy's Looking backward -- Technology and human nature in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world -- The totalitarian state and human nature in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-5167-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818414103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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