LEADER 03505nam 22006735 450 001 9910299801403321 005 20230810192850.0 010 $a9783319706757 010 $a3319706756 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-70675-7 035 $a(OCoLC)1023426970 035 $a(CKB)3840000000347779 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5295020 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-70675-7 035 $a(Perlego)3493905 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000347779 100 $a20180213d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDesire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction /$fby Thomas Horan 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Utopianism,$x2946-448X 311 08$a9783319706740 311 08$a3319706748 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The Sexualized Proletariat in Jack London's The Iron Heel -- 3. Redemptive Atavism in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We -- 4. The Sexual Life of the Savage in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World -- 5. Katherine Burdekin's Swastika Night, a Gay Romance -- 6. Distortions of Queer Desire in Ayn Rand's Anthem -- 7. Desire and Empathy in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- 8. Ludic Perversions and Enduring Communities in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- 9. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships, anticipating the ideas of various cultural theorists. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Utopianism,$x2946-448X 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aModern History 606 $aCultural History 606 $aIntellectual History 606 $aComparative Literature 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 14$aLiterary History. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aIntellectual History. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 676 $a809.304 700 $aHoran$b Thomas$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0151248 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299801403321 996 $aDesire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction$92501123 997 $aUNINA