Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity /

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Author / Creator:	Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 297 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation. More, Thomas, -- Saint, -- 1478-1535. -- Utopia. Orwell, George, -- 1903-1950. Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint) American fiction -- History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Comparative literature -- American and Russian. Comparative literature -- Russian and American. Russian fiction -- History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) -- United States. Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain. Modernism (Literature) -- Russia. Space and time in literature. Nationalism in literature. Communities in literature. American fiction. Communities in literature. Comparative literature -- American and Russian. Comparative literature -- Russian and American. Modernism (Literature) Nationalism in literature. Russian fiction. Space and time in literature. Utopias in literature. Utopias Great Britain. Russia. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126474

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ISBN:	9780520926769 0520926765 0520228286 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520228294 (paper : alk. paper) 0585466092 9780585466095 1597346683 9781597346689 9780520228283 0520228286 9780520228290 0520228294
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-286) and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as well as a nuanced dialectical meditation on the history of utopian thinking as a quintessential history of modernity. As he unrave.
Other form:	Print version: Imaginary communities Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520228286 (cloth : alk. paper)

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.

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