Worlds Gone Awry
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Dystopian fiction captivates us by depicting future worlds at once eerily similar and shockingly foreign to our own. This collection of new essays presents some of the most recent scholarship on a genre whose popularity has surged dramatically since the 1990s. Contributors explore such novels as The Lord of the Flies, The Heart Goes Last, The Giver and The Strain Trilogy as social critique, revealing how they appeal to the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an idealized yet illusory society in which evil is purged and justice prevails.
John J. Han is professor of English and creative writing and chair of the humanities division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis and is the author, editor, co-editor, compiler, or translator of 18 books. C. Clark Triplett is vice president for graduate studies and academic program review and professor of psychology/sociology at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis. Ashley G. Anthony is an associate instructor of English at Maryville University, in St. Louis.