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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
3. The Caveman’s Century: The Development of Totalitarianism from Jacobinism to Stalinism
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
5. Mechanism, Collectivism, and Humanity: The Origins of Dystopian Literature, 1810–1945
The Literary Dystopia: Problems of Definition
From Satire to Anti-Jacobin Dystopia in Britain
Great Britain: Social Darwinism, Eugenics, Revolution, and Mechanical Civilization, 1870–1914
The USA, 1880–1914: Bellamy and his Critics
Britain and the USA: Dystopia Turns Towards Science Fiction
Anti-Bolshevism and Anti-Fascism, 1918–1940
Conclusion: The Contours of the Literary Dystopia, 1792–1945
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
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