Human nature and politics in utopian and anti-utopian fiction Politics, literature, & film./ Nivedita Bagchi.

Abstract

"This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works of Thomas More, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. By teasing out the underlying conceptions of human nature in these novels, this book links the ontology of their works directly to their political prescriptions"--