The dystopian impulse in modern literature: fiction as social criticism

Abstract

Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia, and Social Critique Zamyatin's We: Anticipating Stalin Huxley's Brave New World: The Early Bourgeois Dystopia Orwell's 1984: The Totalitarian Dystopian after Stalin The Bourgeois Dystopia after World War II Postmodernism with a Russian Accent: The Contemporary Communist Dystopia Skepticism Squared: Western Postmodernist Dystopias Postscript: Literature and Dystopia Works Cited