Modern dystopian fiction and political thought : narratives of world politics /: narratives of world politics. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adam Stock.
• Authors: Stock, Adam
• Contents: Introduction Part I 1. "Troubles began quietly": tensions of emergence in E. M. Forster’s "The Machine Stops" 2. "Libraries Full of Kants": Heretics, history and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We 3. Experiments, with sex and drugs: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Part II 4. "It has happened to Europe before but never to me": allegory and English exceptionalism in 1930s dystopias 5. Nazism, myth and the pastoral in Katherine Burdekin’s dystopian fiction 6. Dystopia at its limits: World War II and history Part III 7. Bodies and nobodies: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 8. "Life in all its forms is strife": the Cold War nuclear threat and John Wyndham’s pessimistic liberal utopianism Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.933581; Dystopias in literature; International relations in literature; World politics in literature; Politics and literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century; Literature, Modern -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317326922; 9781317326939; 9781317326915; 9781315657066
• Related ISBNs: 9781138101272
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