American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history [electronic resource] / Peter Swirski.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 15.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xiii, 255 p. : illSubject(s):- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Political fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Utopias in literature
- Social control in literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Exceptionalism -- United States
- Social engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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- PS374.U8 S85 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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