Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide

by M. Keith Booker

Book Overview

Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dystopian literature depicts the flaws and failures of imaginative societies. Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian writers have chosen to reveal shortcomings of those social systems previously considered ideal. This reference overviews dystopian theory and summarizes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313291152
• ISBN13: 9780313291159
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"