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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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9780520926769 (electronic bk.) |
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0520926765 (electronic bk.) |
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0585466092 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585466095 (electronic bk.) |
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1597346683 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781597346689 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780520228283 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0520228286 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780520228290 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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0520228294 (paper ; alk. paper) |
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