Utopian audiences : how readers locate nowhere / Kenneth M. Roemer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roemer, Kenneth M., 1945-

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Utopias in literature.

Authors and readers--English-speaking countries.

Authors and readers.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Utopias--English-speaking countries.

Utopias.

Reader-response criticism.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 295 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Utopian Studies and Utopian Audiences 1

Part 1 Placing Readers at the Forefront of Nowhere

1 The Nature of Utopian Invitations 19

2 Documenting, Visualizing, and Defining Utopian Reception 30

Part 2 Culturally, Genre(ly), and Textually Constructed Utopian Readers

3 Perceptual Origins: Preparing American Readers to See Utopia 71

4 The Literary Domestication of Utopia: There's No Looking Backward without Uncle Tom and Uncle True 90

Part 3 From Constructs to a Historically Documented (First) Reader

5 Getting Nowhere beyond Stasis: Reading as Expose, Textual Implication, and Life Story 117

Part 4 Real Utopian Readers from the Turns of Two Centuries

6 Reviewers Placing Nowhere 139

7 733 Aliens Transforming Utopia: Preliminaries 169

8 733 Aliens Transforming Utopia: Utopian Closings and Openings 183

9 733 Aliens Transforming Religion, Women, Equality, and Utopia 204

Afterword: A Gathering of Utopian Audiences 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.

ISBN:

1558494219

OCLC:

52509444