Desire and empathy in twentieth-century dystopian fiction

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Desire and empathy in twentieth-century dystopian fiction
著者: Thomas Horan author.
SpringerLink (Online service)
主題: Dystopias in literature; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature; Literary History; Modern History; Cultural History; Intellectual Studies; Comparative Literature
所屬期刊: Springer eBooks
描述: 1. Introduction -- 2. The Sexualized Proletariat in Jack London's The Iron Heel -- 3. Redemptive Atavism in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We -- 4. The Sexual Life of the Savage in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World -- 5. Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night, a Gay Romance -- 6. Distortions of Queer Desire in Ayn Rand's Anthem -- 7. Desire and Empathy in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- 8. Ludic Perversions and Enduring Communities in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- 9. Conclusion.
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships, anticipating the ideas of various cultural theorists. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community.
相關題名: 叢書名Palgrave studies in utopianism.
出版者: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
建立日期: 2018
格式: 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations, digital ; 24 cm..
語言: 英文
識別號: ISBN9783319706757;ISBN9783319706740
資源來源: NUTN ALEPH

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Desire and empathy in twentieth-century dystopian fiction

Thomas Horan author. SpringerLink (Online service) 2018

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