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Description:Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the twentieth century, H. G. Wells linked utopia to the World State, whose post-national, post-Westphalian emergence he predicated on English national discourse. This critical study examines how the discursive representations of England's geography, continuity, and character become foundational to the Wellsian utopia and elicit competing response from Wells's contemporaries, particularly Robert Hugh Benson and Aldous Huxley, with further ramifications throughout the twentieth century. Whereas Benson overwrites national discourse as an impediment to world unity, Huxley salvages the residual traces of English culture from their abuses in the World State. Contextualized alongside the changing circumstances of modernity, such contrary reactions demonstrate a shift from disavowal to retrieval of England, on the one hand, and from endorsement to rejection of the World State, on the other. England's dissolution in the throes of alterity takes increasing precedence over the visions of a post-national world order and dissents from the Wellsian utopia. This trend continues in the work of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, J. G. Ballard, and Julian Barnes, whose scenarios warn against a world without England. The Nationality of Utopia investigates utopia's capacity to deconstruct and redeploy national discourse in ways that surpass fear and nostalgia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature). To get started finding The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the twentieth century, H. G. Wells linked utopia to the World State, whose post-national, post-Westphalian emergence he predicated on English national discourse. This critical study examines how the discursive representations of England's geography, continuity, and character become foundational to the Wellsian utopia and elicit competing response from Wells's contemporaries, particularly Robert Hugh Benson and Aldous Huxley, with further ramifications throughout the twentieth century. Whereas Benson overwrites national discourse as an impediment to world unity, Huxley salvages the residual traces of English culture from their abuses in the World State. Contextualized alongside the changing circumstances of modernity, such contrary reactions demonstrate a shift from disavowal to retrieval of England, on the one hand, and from endorsement to rejection of the World State, on the other. England's dissolution in the throes of alterity takes increasing precedence over the visions of a post-national world order and dissents from the Wellsian utopia. This trend continues in the work of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, J. G. Ballard, and Julian Barnes, whose scenarios warn against a world without England. The Nationality of Utopia investigates utopia's capacity to deconstruct and redeploy national discourse in ways that surpass fear and nostalgia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature). To get started finding The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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