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
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