{"product_id":"utopia-and-its-discontents-by-dr-sebastian-mitchell-9781441109637","title":"Utopia and Its Discontents","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUtopia and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate how they construct, challenge, and explore the ideas and forms of earlier utopian writings and the social and political ideals of their own periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this original and insightful study, Sebastian Mitchell demonstrates how literary utopias are often as much about the past as they are about the present and the future. \u003ci\u003eUtopia and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e concludes by arguing against the idea that the utopian has been eclipsed by the dystopian in contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTopics covered include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eEarly political and philosophical authors, such as Plato and Thomas More\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eLiterary works, from Jonathan Swift’s \u003ci\u003eGulliver’s Travels\u003c\/i\u003e to George Orwell's \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSpeculative-fiction writers such as H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Margaret Atwood\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eEcological and feminist texts by Ernest Callenbach, Ursula Le Guin, and Marge Piercy\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eTwenty-first century utopianism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an essential study for scholars and students of utopian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601141711084,"sku":"9781441109637","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b3a11d416337b0ffcfefbf0ad9e9d6c9.jpg?v=1778018686","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/utopia-and-its-discontents-by-dr-sebastian-mitchell-9781441109637","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}