TY - BOOK AU - Bagchi,Nivedita TI - Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction T2 - Politics, Literature, & Film SN - 9781498551670 AV - PR830.D96 U1 - 823.009/372 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Utopias in literature KW - Dystopias in literature KW - Human beings in literature KW - State, The, in literature KW - fast KW - Psychology in literature KW - Science fiction KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy KW - bisacsh KW - EBSCO eBooks KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The imperfection of utopia: the combination of reason and religion in Thomas More -- The mutability of human nature in Edward Bellamy's Looking backward -- Technology and human nature in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world -- The totalitarian state and human nature in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four N2 - "This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works of Thomas More, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. By teasing out the underlying conceptions of human nature in these novels, this book links the ontology of their works directly to their political prescriptions"-- UR - https://www.lib.tsu.ru/limit/2023/EBSCO/1924115.pdf ER -