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Yes, you can access Perfect Worlds by Douwe Fokkema, Jacques Thomassen,Kasper van Ommen, Jacques Thomassen, Kasper van Ommen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Asian Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Year

2012

eBook ISBN

9789048514861

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Asian Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Utopia of Thomas More
3. From Rational Eutopia to Grotesque Dystopia
4. Interlude: The Island Syndrome from Atlantis to Lanzarote and Penglai
5. Enlightenment Utopias
6. Orientalism: European Writers Searching for Utopia in China
7. Chinese Philosophers and Writers Constructing Their Own Utopias
8. Small-Scale Socialist Experiments, or “The New Jerusalem in Duodecimo”
9. Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? and Dostoevsky’s Dystopian Foresight
10. When Socialist Utopianism Meets Politics …
11. Bellamy’s Solidarity and Its Feminist Mirror Image in Herland
12. Chinese Occidentalism: The Nostalgia for a Utopian Past Gives Way to the Idea of Progress
13. H. G. Wells and the Modern Utopia
14. Dystopian Fiction in the Soviet Union, Proletkult, and Socialist-Realist Utopianism
15. Mao Zedong’s Utopian Thought and the Post-Mao Imaginative Response
16. Utopias, Dystopias, and Their Hybrid Variants in Europe and America since World War I
17. Concluding Observations
References
Subject Index
Index of Names

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