Zones of Eden: Utopian Fragments in Raymond Williams's The Fight for Manod and E. P. Thompson's The Sykaos Papers
In: Utopian studies, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 613-635
ISSN: 2154-9648
Abstract
The article offers a comparative account of Raymond Williams's The Fight for Manod and E. P. Thompson's The Sykaos Papers and examines their depiction of social and political realities during the late twentieth century, the meeting of socialist and ecological concerns in their fictional world, as well as their allegiance to William Morris's utopian vision. The article also aims to place Williams's and Thompson's fiction in an often-neglected thread of the modern utopian tradition, which tends to combine utopian and dystopian elements.