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1 online resource (xxvi, 297 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-286) and index. |
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Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities -- Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity -- Institutional Being of Genre -- Space and Modernity -- Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia -- Utopia and the Birth of Nations -- Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions -- Utopiques and Conceptualized Space -- Crime and History -- Utopia and the Nation-Thing -- Utopia and the Work of Nations -- Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward -- Remembering -- Contemporary Cul-de-Sac -- Fragmentation -- Consumerism and Class -- "The Associations of Our Active Lifetime" -- Forgetting -- Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" -- Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity -- Long Revolution of The Iron Heel -- "Nameless, Formless Things" -- "Gaseous Vertebrate" -- Simplification and the New Subject of History -- A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed -- Reclaiming We for Utopia -- City and the Country -- Happiness and Freedom -- Play of Possible Worlds -- We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon -- Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia -- Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia" -- Crisis of Modern Reason -- Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality" -- "If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals. |
| Summary |
Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unrave. |
| Local Note |
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
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Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias in literature. |
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Comparative literature -- American and Russian.
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Comparative literature -- American and Russian. |
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Comparative literature -- Russian and American.
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Comparative literature -- Russian and American. |
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Russian fiction -- History and criticism.
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Russian fiction. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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United States. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Russia.
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Russia. |
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Space and time in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Nationalism in literature.
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Nationalism in literature. |
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Communities in literature.
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Communities in literature. |
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Space and time in literature. |
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utopian literature. |
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Imaginary communities Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520228286 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2001008657 |
| ISBN |
9780520926769 ebook |
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0520926765 |
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0520228286 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520228294 paper alkaline paper |
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0585466092 (electronic book) |
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9780585466095 (electronic book) |
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1597346683 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781597346689 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780520228283 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520228286 |
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9780520228290 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0520228294 |
