The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature

The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (1994) by M. Keith Booker is an academic study of the dystopian tradition, examining works from Zamyatin's We through Orwell's 1984 and into postwar and postmodern dystopias as a form of social criticism. Drawing on Freud, Nietzsche, and other theoretical frameworks, Booker situates the genre within broader intellectual and political history. One of the earlier book-length scholarly treatments of the genre and still frequently cited in dystopian criticism.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, green cloth with silver lettering on front and spine. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN: 031329092x. #10022.
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