1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series
Popular culture and world politics
Notes
<P>Introduction </P><P><STRONG>Part I </STRONG></P><P>1. "Troubles began quietly": tensions of emergence in E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" </P><P>2. "Libraries Full of Kants": Heretics, history and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We </P><P>3. Experiments, with sex and drugs: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World </P><P><STRONG>Part II </STRONG></P><P>4. "It has happened to Europe before but never to me": allegory and English exceptionalism in 1930s dystopias </P><P>5. Nazism, myth and the pastoral in Katherine Burdekin's dystopian fiction </P><P>6. Dystopia at its limits: World War II and history </P><P><STRONG>Part III</STRONG> </P><P>7. Bodies and nobodies: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four </P><P>8. "Life in all its forms is strife": the Cold War nuclear threat and John Wyndham's pessimistic liberal utopianism </P><P>Conclusion</P>
