American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history
By: by Peter Swirski
Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature -- 15
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780415891929; 9780203816615
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Political culture; Politics and literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Social engineering; Literature and society; History and criticism; American Political fiction; American fiction; Exceptionalism; Social control in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [221]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution; title: How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two; title: 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; title: You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace; title: We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome; title: It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America.