In Consuming Utopia, John Storey builds on critical insights into consumption and utopianism developed in two previous books to elaborate what it means to read utopian fiction (including dystopian and anti-utopian) from the critical perspective of cultural studies.

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK, and Chair Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholar Programme, Shaanxi Normal University, China.

Preface; 1. Culture and power; 2. The utopian contrast; 3. Dystopian and anti-utopian fiction; 4. Textual politics; 5. Habitualization, defamiliarization, and utopian reading; 6. Reading and the education of discontent; Postscript; References