State novel

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The state novel is a literary genre in which a fictional, typically more perfect or ideal society and its form of government are thematized in the form of a novel . A state novel takes up a social utopia or develops one. From the 20th century, utopias were replaced by opposing designs, the mätopien . An example of the state novel of the modern age is Utopia by Thomas More .

The literary processing of the Enlightenment plays an important role for the genre . State novels of the Enlightenment describe a perfecting of the coexistence on the level of the state and deal with the cosmopolitan man .

literature

State novel . In: Dieter Burdorf, Christoph Fasbender, Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon Literature: Terms and definitions . 3. Edition. Metzler, ISBN 978-3-476-05000-7 , pp. 727 f . ( Google Books ).

Individual evidence

  1. Götz Müller: State novels of the Enlightenment . In: Gegenwelten. The utopia in German literature . Metzler, Stuttgart 1989 ( springer.com ).