The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Professor Caroline Edwards has published widely on contemporary literature, critical theory, and science fiction. Caroline's research has been featured by BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, BBC One South East, the New Statesman, Times Higher Education, the Guardian, SFX Magazine, and in a dedicated exhibition at the Museum of London.

• 1. The utopian impulse in British literature and culture since 1945 Caroline Edwards; Part I. The Dream of Imperial Ruins: 2. Cosy catastrophes: ambivalent utopias amidst the wreckage Roger Luckhurst; 3. The 1960s: new wave, new worlds Tom Dillon; 4. Post-imperial melancholy in the long 1970s Andrew M. Butler; Part II. Building New Communities: 5. The British counterculture, utopia, and class David Wilkinson; 6. Staging utopian subjects: contemporary British theatre beyond the barriers Siân Adiseshiah; 7. Utopian communities in Scottish fiction Timothy Baker; Part III. From Crisis to Hope: Utopian Aesthetics; 8. Doris Lessing: surviving utopia David Sergeant; 9. Utopian articulations in experimental British poetry Juha Virtanen; 10. Utopian realism and race Sara Upstone; Part IV. Case Studies: 11. Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman: a critical feminist utopia Katie Stone; 12. Ankh-Morpork, anti-utopia: Terry Pratchett's Night Watch and Making Money Jo Lindsay Walton; 13. Some dialectics of utopia in China Miéville's Bas-Lag trilogy Carl Freedman.