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LIT 499: Utopia/Dystopia

Literary Criticism: Selected Works

Useful Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):

Other useful LCSH:

Selected scholarly books/e-books

This list is not exhaustive of the library's holdings! Use the subject headings above to find additional resources.

Search by subject to find works about an author or criticisms of a specific dystopian/utopian novel.

See, for example, the works assigned to:

Look especially for "criticism and interpretation," a common sub-division assigned to criticisms published in books:

Another useful technique would be to execute the searches below, adding (on the second line of Advanced Search) a term from the title of the author's work (e.g., Oryx) if you wish to reduce your results set.

Note: Search WorldCat to find even more criticism. Request found chapters via our interlibrary loan (ILL) service.

Note: In both Library Search and in the A&I databases, the Boolean operator "AND" links main concepts, which reduces your result set. Connect synonyms with the "OR" operator in a parenthetical expression (e.g., <Oryx OR Testaments>) to increase results. The truncation symbol (*) expands word stems.

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