Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

by Thomas Horan

Book Overview

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319889788
• ISBN13: 9783319889788
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"