Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics
Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics | Rare and modern books | Surette Leon
Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics
Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics | Rare and modern books | Surette Leon
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- Author
- Surette Leon
- Publishers
- McGill-Queen s University Press, Canada, 2011
- Cover description
- As New
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- As New
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- Hardcover
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- False
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8vo, hardcover, Leon Surette provides new insights into the motivations and development of each writer s respective political postures. Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia examines their political commentary and their correspondence with each other from 1910s to the 1950s. Contextualizing their political thought in a world troubled by two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Bolshevik Revolution, Surette traces their shared concerns and the divergent responses of each of these figures in the historical moment to the risk they perceived of democracies becoming the pawns of commercial and industrial elites, leading to war and mindless consumerism. They all leaned toward autocratic solutions.
