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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities | ||
1 | Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity | 1 |
The Institutional Being of Genre | 4 | |
Space and Modernity | 10 | |
Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia | 17 | |
2 | Utopia and the Birth of Nations | 27 |
Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions | 27 | |
Utopiques and Conceptualized Space | 34 | |
Crime and History | 40 | |
Utopia and the Nation-Thing | 45 | |
Utopia and the Work of Nations | 59 | |
3 | Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward | 62 |
Remembering | 62 | |
The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac | 65 | |
Fragmentation | 68 | |
Consumerism and Class | 74 | |
"The Associations of Our Active Lifetime" | 81 | |
Forgetting | 87 | |
4 | The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" | 99 |
Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity | 102 | |
The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel | 116 | |
"Nameless, Formless Things" | 119 | |
"Gaseous Vertebrate" | 126 | |
Simplification and the New Subject of History | 132 | |
5 | A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed | 147 |
Reclaiming We for Utopia | 147 | |
The City and the Country | 151 | |
Happiness and Freedom | 158 | |
The Play of Possible Worlds | 161 | |
We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon | 172 | |
6 | Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four | 183 |
From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia | 185 | |
Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia" | 192 | |
The Crisis of Modern Reason | 197 | |
Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality" | 208 | |
"If there was hope ...": Orwell's Intellectuals | 216 | |
Notes | 229 | |
Index | 287 |
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Add Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity, Wegner demonstrates a wide-ranging yet lighthanded philosophical learnedness, an urgent political conscience, and a deeply historical sense that narrative utopias are like specters that haunt particular moments of upheaval, crisis, and contradiction with, Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity to your collection on WonderClub |