Main entry:

Wegner, Phillip E., 1964-

Title & Author:

Imaginary communities : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity / Phillip E. Wegner.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.

Description:

xxvi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-286) and index.
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: Re-authoring, 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 acive 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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ISBN:

0520228286 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520228283 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520228294 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780520228290 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Criticism and interpretation.
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Critique et interprétation.
More, Thomas, Sir, 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.
Roman américain Histoire et critique.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Littérature comparée Américaine et russe.
Littérature comparée Russe et américaine.
Roman russe Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) États-Unis.
Modernisme (Littérature) Grande-Bretagne.
Modernisme (Littérature) Russie.
Espace et temps dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Communauté dans la littérature.
utopian literature.
American fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Russian fiction
Literatur
Utopie
Letterkunde.
Utopieën.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Utopias
Great Britain
Russia
United States

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Utopian fiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222029
Call No.: HX806 .W4 2002
Status: Available