Dystopia: a natural history: a study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffractions
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA - OSO
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Reviews: | The Necessity of Hope in Dystopian Times: A Critical Reflection (2020) (Moylan, Tom, 1943 -)
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| Further subjects: | B
Totalitarianism
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| Summary: | 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. Cover -- Dystopia: A Natural History -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Part I: The Theory and Pre-History of Dystopia -- 1: Rethinking the Political Dystopia: The Group and the Crowd -- Introduction: Rethinking Dystopia -- Other Prototypes of Dystopia: Militarized Societies, Slavery, Despotism, Prisons, and Diseased Spaces -- Holy Terror: Religion and the Uses of Guilt -- Group Psychology and Dystopia -- The Group Goes Wild: The Crowd -- Freud and Later Group Psychology -- No (Wo)Man is an Island: The Primacy of Groupishness -- Groups and Identity -- Groupism: Ethical Exchange and Higher Morality -- Religious Groups as Paradigms of Extreme Groupism -- Conclusion -- The Argument of this Book -- 2: Monstrosity and the Origin ofDystopian Space -- Introduction: Teratology and Dystopia -- The Origins of Mythical Beings and Spaces: Spirits, Magic, and the Dead -- Some Monstrous Types: Wild Men, Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairy Tales -- Wild Men and Indigenous Peoples -- Vampires -- Werewolves -- Monsters in Fairy Tales -- The Modern Reinvention of Monstrosity -- The King of Dystopia:Satan´s Triumphant March -- Introduction: Satan´s Domain -- Satanic History -- The Devil -- Hell -- Satan´s Advance -- The Devil, Race, and the Jews -- Gendering Dystopia: Witches and Witchcraft -- Explaining Witchcraft -- The `Reality´ of Witchcraft -- Gender and Sexual Explanations -- Seek and Ye Shall Find: The Inquisition -- Conclusion: Monstrosities, the Devil, and the Persecution Mania -- Part II: Totalitarianism and Dystopia -- Chapter 3: The Caveman´s Century: The Development of Totalitarianism from Jacobinism to Stalinism -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONCEPT OF TOTALITARIANISM -- THE PROTOTYPE: YEAR II OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (SEPTEMBER 1793-JULY 1794) -- BOLSHEVIK TERROR AND THE GULAG SYSTEM -- Hard People. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (569 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0191088617 |