The Mind’s Isle: Imaginary Islands in English Fiction
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2017
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Peter Lang
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Kempton, Adrian. The Mind’s Isle: Imaginary Islands in English Fiction. Oxford, Eng.: Peter Lang, 2017. 978-1-78707-303-6
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Part II (63-115) is on Utopias and Dystopias and discusses More, Bacon, Neville, Swift, Barrie’s Neverland, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Fanua in her Mr. Fortune’s Maggot (1927), and Huxley’s Pala. Elsewhere, the author discusses Robinson Crusoe (178-195) and Robinsonades (Golding’s Pincher Martin, Muriel Spark’s Robinson, and, briefly, Coetzee’s Foe) (197-217). Lord of the Flies in also considered (279-286) as are quite a few non-utopian texts.