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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.