Modern dystopian fiction and political thought: narratives of world politics
Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural value in representing fears a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural value in representing fears and anxieties about the future. As such, dystopian fictions do not merely mirror what is happening in the world: in becoming such a ready referent for discussions about such varied topics as governance, popular culture, security, structural discrimination, environmental disasters and beyond, the narrative conventions and generic tropes of dystopian fiction affect the ways in which we grapple with contemporary political problems, economic anxieties and social fears. The volume addresses the development of the narrative methods and generic conventions of dystopian fiction as a mode of socio-political critique across the first half of the twentieth century. It examines how a series of texts from an age of political extremes contributed to political discourse and rhetoric both in its contemporary setting and in the terms in which we increasingly cast our cultural anxieties. Focusing on interactions between temporality, spatiality and narrative, the analysis unpicks how the dystopian interacts with social and political events, debates and ideas, Stock evaluates modern dystopian fiction as a historically responsive mode of political literature. He argues that amid the terrors and upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, dystopian fiction provided a unique space for writers to engage with historical and contemporary political thought in a mode that had popular cultural appeal. Combining literary analysis informed by critical theory and the history of political thought with archival-based historical research, this volume works to shed new light on the intersection of popular culture and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars in literary studies, cultural and intellectual history, politics and international relations |
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Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction viii ix 1 1 “Troubles began quietly”: Tensions of emergence in E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” 16 2 “Libraries full of Kants”: Heretics, history and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We 27 3 Experiments, with sex and drugs: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World 53 4 “It has happened to Europe before but never to me”: Allegory and English exceptionalism in 1930s dystopias 75 5 Nazism, myth and the pastoral in Katharine Burdekin’s dystopian fiction 100 6 Dystopia at its limits: The Second World War and history 127 7 Bodies and nobodies: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 149 8 “Life in all its forms is strife”: The Cold War nuclear threat and John Wyndham’s pessimistic liberal utopianism 175 Conclusion 200 Bibliography Index 207 227 |
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Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction viii ix 1 1 “Troubles began quietly”: Tensions of emergence in E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” 16 2 “Libraries full of Kants”: Heretics, history and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We 27 3 Experiments, with sex and drugs: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World 53 4 “It has happened to Europe before but never to me”: Allegory and English exceptionalism in 1930s dystopias 75 5 Nazism, myth and the pastoral in Katharine Burdekin’s dystopian fiction 100 6 Dystopia at its limits: The Second World War and history 127 7 Bodies and nobodies: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 149 8 “Life in all its forms is strife”: The Cold War nuclear threat and John Wyndham’s pessimistic liberal utopianism 175 Conclusion 200 Bibliography Index 207 227 |
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