My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward

Author: Julian West

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780526996520

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My Afterdream
My Afterdream

Author: Julian West

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781331321606

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Excerpt from My Afterdream: A Sequel to the Late Mr. Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward It is now some years since the late Mr Edward Bellamy published his well-known and successful work Looking Backward, a work in which are recorded, with characteristic lightness and delicacy of touch, the curious experiences of myself, Julian West. That the facts I communicated to Mr Bellamy do not embrace the whole story must often have occurred to a large proportion of the thousands of readers whose generous appreciation of his efforts was ever a source of satisfaction to my friend. And, indeed, the suspicion is a well-founded one; for the sequel, fraught as it was with a most painful episode, has, from motives which everyone will respect and sympathise with, hitherto been withheld from the public eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Dystopia
Dystopia

Author: Gregory Claeys

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-17

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0191088617

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Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part One assesses the theory and prehistory of 'dystopia'. By contrast to utopia, conceived as promoting an ideal of friendship defined as 'enhanced sociability', dystopia is defined by estrangement, fear, and the proliferation of 'enemy' categories. A 'natural history' of dystopia thus concentrates upon the centrality of the passion or emotion of fear and hatred in modern despotisms. The work of Le Bon, Freud, and others is used to show how dystopian groups use such emotions. Utopia and dystopia are portrayed not as opposites, but as extremes on a spectrum of sociability, defined by a heightened form of group identity. The prehistory of the process whereby 'enemies' are demonised is explored from early conceptions of monstrosity through Christian conceptions of the devil and witchcraft, and the persecution of heresy. Part Two surveys the major dystopian moments in twentieth century despotisms, focussing in particular upon Nazi Germany, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The concentration here is upon the political religion hypothesis as a key explanation for the chief excesses of communism in particular. Part Three examines literary dystopias. It commences well before the usual starting-point in the secondary literature, in anti-Jacobin writings of the 1790s. Two chapters address the main twentieth-century texts usually studied as representative of the genre, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The remainder of the section examines the evolution of the genre in the second half of the twentieth century down to the present.