Dystopia : a natural history : a study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffra...
Dystopia : a natural history : a study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffra...
Dystopia : a natural history : a study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffractions / Gregory Claeys.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/481
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 556 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
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 offer...
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Dystopia : a natural history : a study of modern despotism, its antecedents, and its literary diffractions / Gregory Claeys.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/481
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74VKV7DeK7ed
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ISBN
0198785682 hardcover
9780198785682 hardcover
DDC
321.07
MMS ID
991024063189802626
