LEADER 04253oam 2200841I 450 001 9910789532403321 005 20230126204743.0 010 $a1-136-72338-2 010 $a1-136-72339-0 010 $a1-283-15100-6 010 $a9786613151001 010 $a0-203-81661-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203816615 035 $a(CKB)2670000000094377 035 $a(EBL)692370 035 $a(OCoLC)730151696 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000520870 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12175869 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520870 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10530196 035 $a(PQKB)11655753 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC692370 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL692370 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477557 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL315100 035 $a(OCoLC)730501966 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000094377 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history /$fPeter Swirski 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v15 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-81687-4 311 $a0-415-89192-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. 330 $aThe United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on its exceptionalism.American Utopia and Social Engineering sets out to correct this amnesia. It misses no opportunity to flesh out both the historical premises and the politic 410 0$aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v15. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aUtopias in literature 606 $aSocial control in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aExceptionalism$zUnited States 606 $aSocial engineering$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitical fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aUtopias in literature. 615 0$aSocial control in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aExceptionalism 615 0$aSocial engineering$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a813/.5409355 700 $aSwirski$b Peter$f1963-,$0874151 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789532403321 996 $aAmerican utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history$93845985 997 $aUNINA