Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

• Main Author: Horan, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
• Subjects: Literature-History and criticism.; History, Modern.; Civilization-History.; Intellectual life-History.; Comparative literature.; Literary History.; Modern History.; Cultural History.; Intellectual Studies.; Comparative Literature.

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 erot...