Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity /
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Author / Creator: | Wegner, Phillip E., 1964- |
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Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 297 p.) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126474 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities
- Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
- The Institutional Being of Genre
- Space and Modernity
- Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia
- Utopia and the Birth of Nations
- Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions
- Utopiques and Conceptualized Space
- Crime and History
- Utopia and the Nation-Thing
- Utopia and the Work of Nations
- Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward
- Remembering
- The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac
- Fragmentation
- Consumerism and Class
- "The Associations of Our Active Lifetime"
- Forgetting
- The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias"
- Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity
- The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel
- "Nameless, Formless Things"
- "Gaseous Vertebrate"
- Simplification and the New Subject of History
- A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed
- Reclaiming We for Utopia
- The City and the Country
- Happiness and Freedom
- The Play of Possible Worlds
- We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon
- Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
- From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia
- Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia"
- The Crisis of Modern Reason
- Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality"
- "If there was hope ... ": Orwell's Intellectuals.