{"product_id":"utopia-paperback-4","title":"Utopia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDuncan Bell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDouglas Mao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to consider the life of utopian imagining within the frame of literature and politics. \u003cbr\u003eDuncan Bell, a political scientist and intellectual historian, opens the book with a critical overview of the Anglophone utopian tradition and a fresh definition of utopia. He then shows how the threat of technological annihilation, and the promise of transcendence of human limitations, has shaped utopian and dystopian writing of the last hundred years. Douglas Mao, a scholar of literature, begins the second part of the book by delving into utopian literature's vexed relation to sentimental feeling, especially as this is signalled by speculation on how inhabitants of utopia themselves would read literary works. He then shows how utopian writing's orientation to problem-solving puts it into surprising relation with both politics and literature in general. An interview in which the two authors compare their methods and conclusions closes out the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuncan Bell, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Political Thought and International Relations, University of Cambridge\u003c\/em\u003e, Douglas Mao, \u003cem\u003eRuss Family Professor in the Humanities, English Department, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuncan Bell is Professor of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent monograph is \u003cem\u003eDreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton UP, 2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDouglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent monograph is \u003cem\u003eInventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton UP, 2020). A former president of the Modernist Studies Association, he has held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and currently serves as editor of Hopkins Studies in Modernism, a book series from Johns Hopkins University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.49 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51406863499487,"sku":"9780198922872","price":42.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/em3U1D13Pf9780198922872.webp?v=1789574186","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/utopia-paperback-4","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}