ion becomes an umbrella term for all human solidarity in the modern political sphere, ranging from the progressive politics of the eighteenth-century bourgeois Enlightenment through to the contemporary Left. While DANH rightly condemns Stalinism, it reaches beyond that specificity and pursues its own demonizing project by attaching an a-chronic attribution of the ubiquity of abstract dystopian power to all other manifestations of communism, socialism, and syndicalism. In an unwelcome reprise of the anti-communism that prevailed in the 1920s and the 1950s, DANH engages in the very practice of scapegoating that the book itself critiques as it devalues revolutionary theory and collective practice that has developed in the progressive

The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro

The necessity of hope in dystopian times: A critical reflection

abstract:This paper examines utopian/dystopian time and serial form in several late-nineteenth-century proto-dystopian novels, including Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period, James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript in a Copper Cylinder, and H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. Through mingling the futuristic orientation of utopias and the presentist cause-and-effect experience of serial form, late nineteenth-century dystopias do not set these other worlds in the distant future; rather, they ask readers to see signs of their mortality in the everyday. In doing so, these paradoxical temporalities combine to highlight the finiteness of late-Victorian institutions in the face of more expansive depictions experience.

The British Dystopian Novel from Wells to Ishiguro

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The necessity of hope in dystopian times: A critical reflection

"Our Impending Doom": Seriality's End in Late-Victorian Proto-Dystopian Novels

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