@inbook{6fefd5b47cfa4bf58136005eff03a857,
title = "Dystopia and Class: The Strange Case of Dystopian Fiction ",
abstract = "The genealogy of dystopian fiction is a deep one but there is a moment when such fiction takes its recognizably modern shape as the story of a future worse than the present. With one foot in the commercially successful fiction of popular speculation, and the other in specifically {\textquotedblleft}literary{\textquotedblright} warnings about the withering of {\textquotedblleft}civilized{\textquotedblright} sensibility, the dystopia begins its twentieth-century life as a Janus-faced sub-genre of the novel. This essay will historicize the articulation of class antagonisms in the type of dystopia scholars term the {\textquotedblleft}classical dystopia.{\textquotedblright}",
keywords = "Dystopia, Class, Politics, Language, Power, Narrative, form",
author = "Patricia McManus",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9781003008354-33",
language = "English",
series = "Routledge Handbooks ",
publisher = "Routledge",
editor = "\{Macmillan \}, \{Gloria \}",
booktitle = "Routledge Companion to Literature and Class",
edition = "1",
}