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Political fiction - Wikipedia

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Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction, such as political novels, often "directly criticize an existing society or present an alternative, even fantastic, reality".[1] The political novel overlaps with the social novel, proletarian novel, and social science fiction. Plato's Republic, a Socratic dialogue written around 380 BC, has been one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.[2][3] The Republic is concerned with justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man.[4] Other influential politically themed works include Thomas More's Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), Voltaire's Candide (1759), and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Political fiction frequently employs satire, often in the utopian and dystopian genres. This includes totalitarian dystopias of the earl

Political fiction - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Literary genre Not to be confused with Legal fiction . Aristophanes Plato Thomas More Jan Kochanowski Miguel de Cervantes Jonathan Swift Voltaire Ignacy Krasicki Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Dickens Ivan Turgenev Leo Tolstoy Bolesław Prus Edward Bellamy Joseph Conrad Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz John Steinbeck George Orwell Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction , such as political novels , often "directly critici

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