Dystopia · A Natural History, A Natural History by Claeys, Gregory -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication page 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 Group Psychology and Dystopia

2. Monstrosity and the Origin of Dystopian Space

Introduction: Teratology and Dystopia The King of Dystopia: Satan’s Triumphant March

Part II. Totalitarianism and Dystopia

Introduction The Concept Of Totalitarianism The Prototype: Year II of ohe French Revolution (September 1793–July 1794) Bolshevik Terror and the Gulag System

4. Totalitarianism from Hitler to Pol Pot

Nazi Germany and The ‘Final Solution’ China ‘Abolish Everything Old’: Cambodia Under Pol Pot Eradicating the ‘Other’: Explaining Totalitarian Genocide

Part III. The Literary Revolt against Collectivism

6. The Huxleyan Conundrum: Brave New World as Anti-Utopia

Introduction: The Road to Brave New World The Book Science and Brave New World Huxley and Bolshevism Huxley and Hedonism_ High vs Low Utilitarianism Huxley After Brave New World Conclusion

7. Vaporizing the Soviet Myth: Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

Introduction Prelude Spain and Socialism World War Ii and Socialism ‘Notes on Nationalism’ and Group Identity Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four ‘I do not Understand Why’: Interpreting Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four and Group Identity Conclusion

8. The Post-Totalitarian Dystopia, 1950–2015

Introduction The Leading Texts Thematic Synopsis Appendix: A Few Words on Film Conclusion to Part III

Conclusion: Dystopia in the Twenty-First Century

Bibliography Index