Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities -- 1. Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity -- The Institutional Being of Genre -- Space and Modernity -- Estrangement and the Temporality of Utopia -- 2. Utopia and the Birth of Nations -- Reauthoring, or the Origins of Institutions -- Utopiques and Conceptualized Space -- Crime and History -- Utopia and the Nation-Thing -- Utopia and the Work of Nations -- 3. Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward -- Remembering -- The Contemporary Cul-de-Sac -- Fragmentation -- Consumerism and Class -- "The Associations of Our Active Lifetime" -- Forgetting -- 4. The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" -- Red Star and the Horizons of Russian Modernity -- The Long Revolution of The Iron Heel -- "Nameless, Formless Things" -- "Gaseous Vertebrate" -- Simplification and the New Subject of History -- 5. A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed -- Reclaiming We for Utopia -- The City and the Country -- Happiness and Freedom -- The Play of Possible Worlds -- We's Legacy: The Dispossessed and the Limits of the Horizon -- 6. Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- From Utopian Modernism to Naturalist Utopia -- Orwell and Mannheim: Nineteen Eighty-Four as "Conservative Utopia" -- The Crisis of Modern Reason -- Modernization against Modernity: The Culture Industry and "Secondary Orality" -- "If there was hope . . .": Orwell's Intellectuals -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.