Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics
Author:   Adam Stock
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   230
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
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Author:   Adam Stock
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367584443


ISBN 10:   0367584441
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction Part I 1. ""Troubles began quietly"": tensions of emergence in E. M. Forster’s ""The Machine Stops"" 2. ""Libraries Full of Kants"": Heretics, history and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We 3. Experiments, with sex and drugs: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Part II 4. ""It has happened to Europe before but never to me"": allegory and English exceptionalism in 1930s dystopias 5. Nazism, myth and the pastoral in Katherine Burdekin’s dystopian fiction 6. Dystopia at its limits: World War II and history Part III 7. Bodies and nobodies: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 8. ""Life in all its forms is strife"": the Cold War nuclear threat and John Wyndham’s pessimistic liberal utopianism Conclusion"

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Adam Stock is a Lecturer in English Literature at York St John University, where his research is concerned with narrative and political thought. He uses interdisciplinary methods to explore how narrative and form can be mobilised to make political arguments; using this lens, his primary research interests are in Utopian Studies and Science Fiction. He also works on modernisms, particularly considering temporalities, provinciality and ruination. Some of his previous work has been funded by the AHRC (as Co-Investigator on the early career exploratory award Reconfiguring Ruins) and by the Leverhulme Trust (as Network Facilitator on the Imaginaries of the Future project). He has published articles and chapters on dystopian narratology and on writers including John Wyndham and George Orwell. He serves as Hon. Treasurer of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe).

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