商品簡介
This reprint of Robert C. Elliot’s 1970 text examining the link between utopian science fiction and satire through close readings of classic texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathon Swift, Aldous Huxley, Thomas More, and others, includes a new introduction by literary and utopian scholar Phillip E. Wegner. The main body of the original text is organized in seven chapters, covering saturnalia, satire, and utopia, the shape of Utopia, Swift’s utopias, Hawthorne and utopia, the fear of utopia, the aesthetics of utopia, and anti-anti-utopia. Robert C. Elliot was a faculty member of the University of California, San Diego. Phillip E. Wegner is a faculty member of the University of Florida. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Robert C. Elliott (1914-1981) was a Professor of English Literature and one of the founders of the Literature Department at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from Brown University, and taught at Ohio State University from 1946-1964. He was also the author of The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art (1960) and The Literary Persona (1982).
Phillip E. Wegner is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at the University of Florida, and the President of the Society for Utopian Studies. He received his PhD from the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the author of Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002), Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties (2009), and the forthcoming Ralahine volume Ontologies of the Possible: Utopia, Science Fiction and Globalization.
