Dystopia - A Natural History

Zusatztext [Claeys'] approach is genuinely striking ... it illuminates a good deal ... this book deserves to provoke much discussion in academia ... Claeys is an eloquent and lively writer Informationen zum Autor Born in France, and educated in Canada and the UK, Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. A historian of British radicalism and socialism from 1750 to the present, he is the author of eight books and editor of some fifty volumes, mostly of primary sources. He has written studies of Robert Owen and Owenism, Thomas Paine, and John Stuart Mill, as well as of utopianism. He has been visiting professor at the Australian National University, Keio University, Tokyo, the University of Hanoi, and Peking University. Klappentext The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical overview and prehistory of the concept; an account of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as dystopias; and a brief history of the literary dystopia from the early nineteenth century to the present. Zusammenfassung The first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia: redefining the central concepts and chronology of the genre, and offering a theoretical overview and prehistory of the concept; an account of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes as dystopias; and a brief history of the literary dystopia from the early nineteenth century to the present.

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• Authors: Gregory Claeys, Gregory (Professor of History Claeys, Claeys Gregory
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2016
• EAN: 9780198785682
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878568-2
• No. of pages: 570
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Political Ideologies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Literary studies: general, General and world history, Political ideologies and movements