Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in erot...

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1. Verfasser: Horan, Thomas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Schlagworte:
Literature-History and criticism.
History, Modern.
Civilization-History.
Intellectual life-History.
Comparative literature.
ISBN:9783319706757
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Sexualized Proletariat in Jack London's The Iron Heel
  • 3. Redemptive Atavism in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
  • 4. The Sexual Life of the Savage in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
  • 5. Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night, a Gay Romance
  • 6. Distortions of Queer Desire in Ayn Rand's Anthem
  • 7. Desire and Empathy in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • 8. Ludic Perversions and Enduring Communities in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
  • 9. Conclusion.

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