Utopian & dystopian fiction
Articles
- ‘Current History Looks Apocalyptic’: Barnard Eldershaw, Utopia and the Literary Intellectual, 1930s-1940s
A primary effect of reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow through its Utopian frame is to foreground questions of genre, questions which have been only…
1 October 1989 - The Lemurian Nineties
Healy examines a spate of novels in the 1890s that were inspired by the association of Australia with the mythical lost continent of Lemuria. Novels…
1 May 1978 - A Survey of Australian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
Literary perceptions of Australia's past and future have undergone close scrutiny at various periods in this country's history. The perspectives of fiction are of course…
1 May 1987 - Apocalyptic Climate Fiction in the Third Media Revolution: Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink
This essay explores Briohny Doyle’s dystopian climate fiction novel The Island Will Sink (2016), which dramatises the failure of responding ethically to climate change, as…
30 September 2022