Again, Dangerous Visions : Essays in Cultural Materialism.

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner’s distinctively Orwellian version of cultural materialism between 1981 and 2015. The essays address three substantive areas: the sociology of literature, cultural mate...

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Superior document:Historical materialism book series ; Volume 167
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Historical Materialism Book Series 167.
Physical Description:1 online resource (566 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Sociology of Literature
  • Sociology and Literature
  • The ‘English’ Ideology: Literary Criticism in England and Australia
  • The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  • On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism
  • Loose Canons and Fallen Angels
  • Dissenting, Plebeian, but Belonging Nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams
  • Deconstructing National Literature: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
  • It’s the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
  • Science Fiction and the Literary Field
  • World Systems and World Science Fiction
  • Cultural Materialism
  • Considerations on English Marxism
  • Literature, History and Post-Althusserianism
  • The Revolutions in Favour of Capital
  • Cultural Materialism, Culturalism and Post-Culturalism: The Legacy of Raymond Williams
  • Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia
  • Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class
  • Left Out? Marxism, the New Left and Cultural Studies
  • From Media Imperialism to Semioterrorism
  • Science Fiction
  • Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams
  • Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema
  • Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency
  • Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction
  • Archaeologies of the Future: Jameson’s Utopia or Orwell’s Dystopia?
  • Time Travelling: Or, How (Not) to Periodise a Genre
  • The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse
  • Ice, Fire and Flood: Science Fiction and the Anthropocene by Andrew Milner , J.R. Burgmann , Rjurik Davidson and Susan Cousin
  • Conclusion: Towards 2050
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.