American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history

American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history / Peter Swirski.

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Superior document:Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15
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Swirski, Peter, 1963-
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15.
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Physical Description:xiii, 255 p. :; ill.
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300 |a xiii, 255 p. :  |b ill. 
490 1 |a Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;  |v 15 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America. 
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650 0 |a American fiction  |y 20th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Political fiction, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Utopias in literature. 
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650 0 |a National characteristics, American, in literature. 
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650 0 |a Social engineering  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Political culture  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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