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New York : Oxford University Press, 2017

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ISBN 978-0-19-882047-5 (dotisk ; brožováno)

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List of Illustrations xi // PART I. THE THEORY AND PRE-HISTORY OF DYSTOPIA // 1. Rethinking the Political Dystopia: The Group and the Crowd 3 // Introduction: Rethinking Dystopia 3 // Group Psychology and Dystopia 18 // 2. Monstrosity and the Origin of Dystopian Space 38 // Introduction: Teratology and Dystopia 58 // The King of Dystopia: Satan’s Triumphant March 79 // PART II. TOTALITARIANISM AND DYSTOPIA // 3. The Caveman’s Century: The Development of // Totalitarianism from Jacobinism to Stalinism 113 // Introduction 113 // The Concept of Totalitarianism 114 // The Prototype: Year II of the French Revolution // (September 1793-July 1794) 118 // Bolshevik Terror and the Gulag System 128 // 4. Totalitarianism from Hitler to Pol Pot 177 // Nazi Germany and the ‘Final Solution’ 177 // China 212 // ‘Abolish Everything Old’: Cambodia under Pol Pot 219 // Eradicating the ‘Other’: Explaining Totalitarian Genocide 236 // PARTIU. THE LITERARY REVOLT AGAINST COLLECTIVISM // Introduction to Part III 269 // 5. Mechanism, Collectivism, and Humanity: The Origins // of Dystopian Literature, 1810-1945 273 // The Literary Dystopia: Problems of Definition 273 // From Satire to Anti-Jacobin Dystopia in Britain 291 // Great Britain: Social Darwinism, Eugenics, Revolution, and Mechanical Civilization, 1870-1914 294 // The USA, 1880-1914: Bellamy and His Critics 316 // Britain and the USA: Dystopia Turns towards Science Fiction 333 // Anti-Bolshevism and Anti-Fascism, 1918-3940 337 // Conclusion: The Contours of the Literary Dystopia, 1792-1945 355 //

6. The Huxleyan Conundrum: Brave New World as Anti-Utopia 357 // Introduction: The Road to Brave New World 357 // The Book 361 // Science and Brave New World 365 // Huxley and Bolshevism 369 // Huxley and Hedonism: High vs Low Utilitarianism 375 // Huxley after Brave New World 378 // Conclusion 388 // 7. Vaporizing the Soviet Myth: Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four 390 // Introduction 390 // Prelude 392 // Spain and Socialism 398 // World War II and Socialism 402 // ‘Notes on Nationalism’ and Group Identity 405 // Animal Farm 407 // Nineteen Eighty-Four 409 // ‘I do not understand WHY’: Interpreting Nineteen Eighty-Four 421 // Nineteen Eighty-Four and Group Identity 437 // Conclusion 445 // 8. The Post-Totalitarian Dystopia, 1950-2015 447 // Introduction 447 // The Leading Texts 448 // Thematic Synopsis 488 // Appendix: A Few Words on Film 491 // Conclusion to Part III 494 // Conclusion: Dystopia in the Twenty-First Century 497 // Bibliography 303 // Index 543

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