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The First Monograph Devoted To The Concept Of Dystopia: Redefining The Central Concepts And Chronology Of The Genre, And Offering A Theoretical Overview And Prehistory Of The Concept; An Account Of Twentieth-century Totalitarian Regimes As Dystopias; And A Brief History Of The Literary Dystopia From The Early Nineteenth Century To The Present. Part 1. The Theory And Pre-history Of Dystopia -- Rethinking The Political Dystopia: The Group And The Crowd -- Monstrosity And The Origin Of Dystopian Space -- Part 2. Totalitarianism And Dystopia -- The Caveman's Century: The Development Of Totalitarianism From Jacobinism To Stalinism -- Totalitarianism From Hitler To Pol Pot -- Part 3. The Literary Revolt Against Collectivism -- Mechanism, Collectivism, And Humanity: The Origins Of Dystopian Literature, 1810-1945 -- The Huxleyan Conundrum: Brave New World As Anti-utopia -- Vaporizing The Soviet Myth: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four -- The Post-totalitarian Dystopia, 1950-2015. Gregory Claeys. This Edition Previously Issued In Print: 2016. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.