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  1. Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction portrays a setting that agrees with the author's ethos, having various attributes of another reality intended to appeal to readers. Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that ...

  2. 2. März 2021 · Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, most literary utopias and dystopias have been based on the power of applied science. The futuristic London of Wells’s Sleeper Awakes set the pattern for the high-tech megalopolis that would appear in most subsequent dystopian novels.

    • Peter Heehs
    • 2021
  3. Dystopia is the realization of utopia within a society, which rapidly turns into a chance to witness the malfunctions of said utopia when put to the test of reality, exposing its shortcomings and its social and political risks. In literature, dystopia adopts the individual’s point of view, exposing the absurd treatment he/she is subjected to ...

  4. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Since the publication of Thomas More’s genre-defi ning work Utopia in 1516, the fi eld of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today’s dark and ...

  5. dystopias, and dystopian graphic novels, digital games, and films, to name a few burgeoning genres and forms that belong to the widening field of dystopian fiction as we understand the term in this book.

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  6. The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode.

  7. Literary utopias are far older than their name. Plato ’s Republic was the model of many others, from More’s Utopia to H.G. Wells ’s A Modern Utopia (1905). Other literary utopias, such as Jonathan Swift ’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), are satirical, their aim being to ridicule existent conditions.