Human Rights in Dystopian Novels

Katarzyna Ginszt, Ph.D., works in the Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland). Her academic interests include dystopian literature and film, law and literature, human rights, and the law of new technologies. She has published on European and American fiction and law.

• Introduction: The PreambleChapter 1: Utopia, Law and the Parallel Chapter 2: The Principles of Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias Chapter 3: The Fundamental Rights of an Individual: Nineteen Eighty-Four and Red Clocks Chapter 4: The Rights of an Individual in Civil and Political Society as well as Spiritual, Public and Political Freedoms: Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale Chapter 5: Social, Economic and Cultural Rights: We and Parable of the Sower Chapter 6: General Means of Exercising Human Rights: Classical and Feminist Dystopias Conclusion: Transcending the Boundaries of Fiction