Download or read book Modern Utopian Fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris Murdoch written by Peter Edgerly Firchow and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to put the fiction back into utopian fictions. While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary--possibly as a reaction not only against the "social scientification" of modern utopias but also in reaction against the modern attempt to institute "utopia" in reality, notably in the former Soviet Union but also in consumerist, late-twentieth-century America.