Narrating Utopia Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
Narrating Utopia is about that story. It is about the curious hybrid of the traveler's tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing. In this thought-provoking and stimulating study, Ferns investigates the ideological implications of that story, its relation to the nature of utopian desire and the problems it continues to create even for writers who try to free themselves from its limitations. The gendered character of traditional utopian narrative is a particular concern of the study, which also provides a detailed examination of the ways in which modern feminist utopian writers have sought to rewrite what may be seen as a distinctively male myth.
