Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

Overview:

  • Title: Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults
  • Author: Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry
  • Year: 2002
  • ISBN-10: 0415940176
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Pages: xi+244
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults
  • Notes: Essay contents from OCLC:
    Getting to utopia : railways and heterotopia in children's literature / Alice Jenkins --
    American boys'series books and the utopia of the air / Fred Erisman --
    Travels through dystopia : H.G. Wells and The Island of Dr. Moreau / Alberto Manguel --
    Sarah Fielding's childhood utopia / Sara Gadeken --
    Tinklers and time machines : time travel in the social fantasy of E. Nesbit and H.G. Wells / Cathrine Frank --
    Writing on the wall of Redwall / Holly V. Blackford --
    'Joy but not peace' : Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-sky Trilogy / Carrie Hintz --
    Terrible lizard dream kingdom / James Gurney --
    Bridge to utopia / Katherine Paterson --
    Suffering in utopia : testing the limits in young adult novels / Rebecca Carol Noël Totaro --
    Educating desire : magic, power, and control in Tanith Lee's Unicorn trilogy / Maureen F. Moran --
    Struggle between utopia and dystopia in writing for children and young adults / Monica Hughes --
    Presenting the case for social change : the creative dilemma of dystopian writing for children / Kay Sambell --
    Quest for the perfect planet : the British secondary world as utopia and dystopia, 1945-1999 / Karen Sands O'Connor.