Utopian and dystopian writing for children and young adults

Elaine Ostry

earliest edition we have, 2003 Routledge, 2002 244 pages

Children's literature and culture — book 29

"Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults is the first study devoted to this increasingly popular genre of literature for young readers focused on the question of ideal social organization. The collection defines and explores the category of utopian writing and its thematic conventions, offering detailed case studies of individual, works from the eighteenth century to the present day. Ten critical...

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