Bøger af Peter Edgerly Firchow

Envisioning Africa responds in detail to negative interpretations of the novel Heart of Darkness by revealing what they distort, misconstrue, or fail to take into account.

Tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, this book demonstrates how those utopias have become increasingly literary. Discussing how we understand - and how we should understand - modern utopian fictions, it provides several examples of the ways in which those understandings affect our appreciation of utopian fiction.