This reprint of Robert C. Elliot’s 1970 text examining the link between utopian science fiction and satire through close readings of classic texts by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathon Swift, Aldous
Huxley, Thomas More, and others, includes a new introduction by literary and utopian scholar Phillip E. Wegner. The main body of the original text is organized in seven chapters, covering
saturnalia, satire, and utopia, the shape of Utopia, Swift’s utopias, Hawthorne and utopia, the fear of utopia, the aesthetics of utopia, and anti-anti-utopia. Robert C. Elliot was a faculty
member of the University of California, San Diego. Phillip E. Wegner is a faculty member of the University of Florida. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
