Character and Dystopia examines dystopian characterization through analysis of the "last man" figure. By reading character as crucial to the dystopian project, the book makes a case for dystopia as a sensitive register of modern anxieties about subjectivity and its portrayal in literary works.
Character and Dystopia examines dystopian characterization through analysis of the "last man" figure. By reading character as crucial to the dystopian project, the book makes a case for dystopia as a sensitive register of modern anxieties about subjectivity and its portrayal in literary works.
Aaron Rosenfeld holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University and is Associate Professor of English at Iona College, teaching classes in 20th-century literature.
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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's The Giver and Butler's Parable of the Sower 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
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's The Giver and Butler's Parable of the Sower 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
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