The Fiction of Dread
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A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen- Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture-e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies-have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century. Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
ISBN
9781501375866
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Monstrous Accumulation
  8. Chapter 1: Evoking Dread: The Reality of Possibility
  9. Chapter 2: Baleful Continuities; Or, The Desire Called Dystopia
  10. Chapter 3: Lost in Grand Central: American Gods, Free Trade, and Globalization
  11. Chapter 4: The Utopia of The Mirror: The Postmodern Mise En Abyme
  12. Chapter 5: Welcome to the Teratocene: Morbid Symptoms at the Present Conjuncture
  13. Chapter 6: Teratology as Ideology Critique; Or, A Monster Under Every Bed
  14. Chapter 7: The End-Of-The-World as World System
  15. Chapter 8: In The Deserts of the Empire: The Map, The Territory, and The Heterotopian Enclave
  16. Conclusion: Gold-Bearing Rubble
  17. Index
  18. Imprint