Again, Dangerous Visions: Historical Materialism

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann: An Interview

Part 1 Sociology of Literature

1 Sociology and Literature

2 The "English" Ideology: Literary Criticism in England and Australia

3 The Protestant Epic and the Spirit of Capitalism

4 On the Beach: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism

5 Loose Canons and Fallen Angels

6 Dissenting, Plebeian, but Belonging, Nonetheless: Bourdieu and Williams

7 Deconstructing National Literature: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

8 It's the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art

9 Science Fiction and the Literary Field

10 World Systems and World Science Fiction

Part 2 Cultural Materialism

11 Considerations on English Marxism

12 Literature, History and Post-Althusserianism

13 The Revolutions in Favour of Capital

14 Cultural Materialism, Culturalism and Post-Culturalism: The Legacy of Raymond Williams

15 Cultural Studies and Cultural Hegemony: Comparing Britain and Australia

16 Class and Cultural Production: The Intelligentsia as a Social Class

17 Left Out? Marxism, the New Left and Cultural Studies

18 From Media Imperialism to Semioterrorism

Part 3 Science Fiction

19 Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams

20 Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema

21 Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency

22 Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction

23 Archaeologies of the Future: Jameson's Utopia or Orwell's Dystopia?

24 Time Travelling: Or, How (Not) to Periodise a Genre

25 The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse

26 Ice, Fire and Flood: Science Fiction and the Anthropocene

Andrew Milner co-authored with J.R. Burgmann, Rjurik Davidson and Susan Cousin

Conclusion: Towards 2050 Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann: A Dialogue

Bibliography

Index