Modern Utopian Fictions from H. G. Wells to Iris MurdochThis book aims to put the fiction back into utopian fictions. While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary possibly as a reaction not only against the "social scientification" of modern utopias but also against the modern attempt to institute "utopia" in reality, notably in the former Soviet Union but also