Character and Dystopia: The Last Men (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Section I Background
	1 Introduction: The Last Men in Europe
	2 The Character of Dystopia
		The Language of Despair
		Realist Dystopia
		Setting and Character
		Setting as Character
	3 What We Talk About When We Talk About Dystopia
		The Good Place
		Anti-utopianism and Anti-utopias
		Dystopian Narrative
		Dystopian Law
		Post-apocalypse
		Future (Im)Perfect
Section II De-forming Character
	4 The Last (Hu)Man(ist)
		Humanism in Crisis
		Utopian and Dystopian Humanism and Anti-humanism
		Dystopianism, Naturalism, and Modernism
		Defensive Forms: Humanism, Anti-humanism, and the Dystopian Novel
			Dystopian Humanism
			Dystopian Anti-humanism
	5 Anti-Bildungsroman: Dystopia and the End of Character in Zamyatin, Burgess, and Ishiguro
		The Novel of De-formation
		Allegories of Progress
		Divine Minus: Zamyatin’s Reverse Bildungsroman
		The Predator’s Progress: Burgess’s Satiric Bildungsroman
		Crimes Against Posthumanity: Ishiguro’s Bildungsroman Incarnate
	6 Paranoid Plots: Dystopia and the Fantasy of Centrality in Dostoevsky and Orwell
		Romantic Paranoia
		Paranoid Poetics
		“Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent”
		Diseased Romanticism: Dostoevsky’s Psychological Dystopia
		He Loved Big Brother: Orwell and the Fantasy of Persecution
Section III Dystopian Variations
	7 American Anti-pastoral: Running Down a Dream in West and Mamet
		Dystopian Design
		What Happens to a Dream Deformed?
		West’s World: Dystopian Picaresque in West’s A Cool Million
		Utopian Plots: Dystopian Capitalism in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross
	8 Romancing the Child: First Teens in Lowry and Butler
		First Teens
		New Worlds for Old Desires
		A Family Affair: Romantic Humanism in Lowry’s The Giver
		On the Road Again: Anti-romantic Anti-humanism in Butler’s Earthseed
	9 Epilogue: The Dystopian Real
		Postscript
Works Cited
Index