Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults

Jack Zipes, Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry

Chapter 1 Introduction, Carrie Hintz, Elaine Ostry; Part 1 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Utopia in Transit; Chapter 2 Getting to Utopia: Railways and Heterotopia in Children’s Literature, Alice Jenkins; Chapter 3 American Boys’ Series Books and the Utopia of the Air, Fred Erisman; Chapter 4 Travels through Dystopia: H. G. Wells and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Alberto Manguel; Part 2 Community and Socialism; Chapter 5 Sarah Fielding’s Childhood Utopia, Sara Gadeken; Chapter 6 Tinklers and Time Machines: Time Travel in the Social Fantasy of E. Nesbit and H. G. Wells, Cathrine Frank; Chapter 7 The Writing on the Wall of Redwall, Holly V. Blackford; Chapter 8 ‘Joy but Not Peace’: Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Green-sky Trilogy, Carrie Hintz; Chapter 9 Terrible Lizard Dream Kingdom, James Gurney; Chapter 10 Bridge to Utopia, Katherine Paterson; Part 3 Child Power; Chapter 11 Suffering in Utopia: Testing the Limits in Young Adult Novels, Rebecca Carol Noël Totaro; Chapter 12 Educating Desire: Magic, Power, and Control in Tanith Lee’s Unicorn Trilogy, Maureen F. Moran; Chapter 13 The Struggle between Utopia and Dystopia in Writing for Children and Young Adults, Monica Hughes; Part 4 From the Wreckage: Post–World War II Dystopias and Utopias; Chapter 14 Presenting the Case for Social Change: The Creative Dilemma of Dystopian Writing for Children, Kay Sambell; Chapter 15 The Quest for the Perfect Planet: The British Secondary World as Utopia and Dystopia, 1945–1999, Karen Sands-O’Connor;