Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics (Popular Culture and World Politics)

Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	In dystopian times
	Interdisciplinarity and method
	Locating dystopia, defining dystopia
	Historicising dystopia
	Emergent structures
	Overview
	Notes
1. “Troubles began quietly”: Tensions of emergence in E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
	Introduction
	Arrested development
	Periodising the Machine: Georgians, Edwardians, Victorians
	Degeneration fears
	Queer futurity
	Threatening masculinity
	“Degeneracy” and strength
	Notes
2. “Libraries full of Kants”: Heretics, history and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We
	Introduction
	Zamyatin’s life and politics
	Zamyatin in literary history
	Cinema: reading the body
	Labour and heretics
	Metafiction
	Kant, Hegel and the faculties of the mind
	The power of love
	The techniques of Taylorism
	Utopia
	Notes
3. Experiments, with sex and drugs: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
	Introduction
	From 1932 AD to 632 AF
	Historical context and historical patterns
	Myrmecology
	The politics and aesthetics of need
	Psychologies
	Vilfredo Pareto
	The “black amalgam”
	Notes
4. “It has happened to Europe before but never to me”: Allegory and English exceptionalism in 1930s dystopias
	Introduction: transition and commitment
	Allegory and allegoresis
	The senses of a meaning
	The Wild Goose Chase
	In the Second Year
	“A ghost living for the moment in the future”
	Professors, peace and betrayal
	Notes
5. Nazism, myth and the pastoral in Katharine Burdekin’s dystopian fiction
	Introduction
	The four “Arch-fiends”
	Political religion and paligenetic myth
	Christians and Jews
	Christianity and Nazism
	Nazis and Christianity
	Fascism, myth and technology
	Social conditions
	Gender, sexology and inversion
	Myth, ideology, utopia
	Fascism, romanticism, utopia
	Notes
6. Dystopia at its limits: The Second World War and history
	Introduction
	Karin Boye’s Kallocain
	Rex Warner’s The Aerodrome
	Then We Shall Hear Singing
	Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
	Conclusion
	Notes
7. Bodies and nobodies: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
	Introduction
	The politics of form: Gissing, Wells, modernism
	“Broken images” of the past: Orwell, T. S. Eliot, and the politics of culture
	A rationalist world perverted: Nineteen Eighty-Four Part I
	Locating the Golden Country
	Nature in Oceania
	“Where extinct animals could walk”: Nineteen Eighty-Four Part II
	Love and the practice of oligarchical collectivism
	The body inside Miniluv: Nineteen Eighty-Four Part III
	The cogito stops
	Newspeak Appendix
	Notes
8. “Life in all its forms is strife”: The Cold War nuclear threat and John Wyndham’s pessimistic liberal utopianism
	Introduction
	Wells, world-building, and “logical fantasy”
	Purity and dirt
	From ideology to Scientology
	The dystopian thought of a liberal utopian
	Notes
Conclusion
	Legacies
	Notes
Bibliography
Index