Dystopia : a natural history : a study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffractions /

"Dystopia: A Natural History" is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claeys, Gregory
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: U.K: O.U.P, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Dystopias in literature.
Dystopias > History.
Totalitarianism in literature.
Totalitarianism > History > 20th century.
Dystopias.
Totalitarianism.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The theory and pre-history of dystopia
  • Rethinking the political dystopia: the group and the crowd
  • Monstrosity and the origin of dystopian space
  • Part 2. Totalitarianism and dystopia
  • The caveman's century: the development of totalitarianism from Jacobinism to Stalinism
  • Totalitarianism from Hitler to Pol Pot
  • Part 3. The literary revolt against collectivism
  • Mechanism, collectivism, and humanity: the origins of dystopian literature, 1810-1945
  • The Huxleyan conundrum: Brave New World as anti-utopia
  • Vaporizing the Soviet myth: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • The post-totalitarian dystopia, 1950-2015.

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