Gregory Claeys: Dystopia | Taschenbuch

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The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical overview and prehistory of the concept; an account of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as dystopias; and a brief history of the literary dystopia from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Über den Autor

Born in France, and educated in Canada and the UK, Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. A historian of British radicalism and socialism from 1750 to the present, he is the author of eight books and editor of some fifty volumes, mostly of primary sources. He has written studies of Robert Owen and Owenism, Thomas Paine, and John Stuart Mill, as well as of utopianism. He has been visiting professor at the Australian National University, Keio University, Tokyo, the University of Hanoi, and Peking University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: The Theory and Pre-History of Dystopia

1: Rethinking the Political Dystopia: the Group and the Crowd

2: Monstrosity and the Origin of Dystopian Space

Part Two: Totalitarianism and Dystopia

3: The Caveman's Century: The Development of Totalitarianism from Jacobinism to Stalinism

4: Totalitarianism from Hitler to Pol Pot

Part Three: The Literary Revolt against Collectivism

5: Mechanism, Collectivism, and Humanity: The Origins of Dystopian Literature, 1810-1945

6: The Huxleyan Conundrum: Brave New World as Anti-Utopia

7: Vaporising the Soviet Myth: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

8: The Post-Totalitarian Dystopia, 1950-2015

Conclusion: Dystopia in the 21st Century

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198820475
ISBN-10:	019882047X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Claeys, Gregory
Hersteller:	Hurst & Co.
Maße:	235 x 154 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Gregory Claeys
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.07.2018
Gewicht:	0,882 kg

Artikel-ID: 111221346

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: The Theory and Pre-History of Dystopia

1: Rethinking the Political Dystopia: the Group and the Crowd

2: Monstrosity and the Origin of Dystopian Space

Part Two: Totalitarianism and Dystopia

3: The Caveman's Century: The Development of Totalitarianism from Jacobinism to Stalinism

4: Totalitarianism from Hitler to Pol Pot

Part Three: The Literary Revolt against Collectivism

5: Mechanism, Collectivism, and Humanity: The Origins of Dystopian Literature, 1810-1945

6: The Huxleyan Conundrum: Brave New World as Anti-Utopia

7: Vaporising the Soviet Myth: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

8: The Post-Totalitarian Dystopia, 1950-2015

Conclusion: Dystopia in the 21st Century

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198820475
ISBN-10:	019882047X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Claeys, Gregory
Hersteller:	Hurst & Co.
Maße:	235 x 154 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Gregory Claeys
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.07.2018
Gewicht:	0,882 kg