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The dystopian impulse in modern literature : fiction as social criticism

Author: M Keith Booker
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 58.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Booker, M. Keith.
Dystopian impulse in modern literature.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994
(OCoLC)624456188
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: M Keith Booker
ISBN: 031329092X 9780313290923
OCLC Number: 29312461
Description: 197 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Utopia, dystopia, and social critique --
Zamyatin's We : anticipating Stalin --
Huxley's Brave new world : the early bourgeois dystopia --
Orwell's 1984 : the totalitarian dystopia after Stalin --
The bourgeois dystopia after World War II --
Postmodernism with a Russian accent : the contemporary communist dystopia --
Skepticism squared : Western postmodernist dystopias --
Postscript: Literature and dystopia
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 58.
Responsibility: M. Keith Booker.

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