Imaginary communities: utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity

Acknowledgments Introduction: Reality of Imaginary Communities 1. Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity Institutional Being of Genre Space and Modernity Estrangement and the Temporality of 2. and the Birth of Nations Re-authoring, or the Origins of Institutions Utopiques and Conceptualized Space Crime and History and the Nation-Thing and the Work of Nations 3. Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward Remembering Contemporary Cul-de-Sac Fragmentation Consumerism and Class The Associations of Our Active Lifetime Forgetting 4. Occluded Future: Red Star and Iron Heel as Critical Utopias Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity Long Revolution of Iron Heel Nameless, Formless Things Gaseous Vertebrate Simplification and the New Subject of History 5. A Map of Utopia's Worlds: Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's Dispossessed Reclaiming We for City and the Country Happiness and Freedom Play of Possible Worlds We's Legacy: Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon 6. Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as Conservative Utopia Crisis of Modern Reason Modernization against Modernity: Culture Industry and Secondary Orality If there was hope...: Orwell's Intellectuals Notes Index