Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future

This book examines utopian/dystopian fiction's enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital sources of the utopian impulse.

Author: Carter F. Hanson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/31/2023
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780367536305

About the Author

Carter F. Hanson is Professor of English at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. He is the author of Emigration, Nation, Vocation: The Literature of English Emigration to Canada, 1825-1900 (Michigan State UP, 2009), as well as articles on utopian/dystopian literature and utopianism published in Extrapolation, Science Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory.

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