The literary utopias of cultural communities, 1790-1910 / edited by Marguérite Corporaal and Evert Jan van Leeuwen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Corporaal, Marguérite.

Leeuwen, Evert Jan van.

Conference Name:

Leiden October Conference (2006)

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 46.

DQR studies in literature ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias in literature--Congresses.

Utopias in literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

American literature.

Literature.

Local Subjects:

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume of essays by scholars in the field of English and American studies brings together a variety of perspectives on the utopian literature originating from cultural communities from 1790-1910. Ranging from the Lunar society to the Nationalist movement, and from the Transcendentalists to the Indian Monday Club the fifteen peer-reviewed articles examine a wide range of contexts in which utopian literature was written, and will be of interest to scholars in the field of cultural and literary studies alike.

Contents:

Foreward / Peter Liebregts

In the churchyard and under the full moon : the radical publisher and his clients and guests / C.C. Barfoot

The sexual difference : gender, politeness, and conversation in late-eighteenth-century New York City and in Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin (1798) / Bryan Waterman

Godwin, Bulwer and Poe : intellectual elitism and the Utopian impulse of popular fiction / Evert Jan van Leeuwen

A turn to the past : republicanism and Brook Farm / Marilyn Michaud

Utopian waste at Brook Farm, Fruitlands and Walden Pond / Richard Francis

Nathaniel Hawthorne's minority report on transcendentalism / Teresa Requena Pelegrí

Thoreau's individualistic utopia / Daniel Ogden

The great earth speaking : Richard Jefferies and the transcendentalists / Roger Ebbatson

The ideal of everyday life in William Morris' News from nowhere / Florence Boos

Thoughts towards the nature of creativity in literary and cultural communities : The germ and its fruition / Valeria Tinkler-Villani

A feminist mirage of the new life : utopian elements in The story of an African farm / Wim Tigges

Towards a feminist collectivism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Nationalist Movement / Marguérite Corporaal

At home, in Japan : the new world literature of Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton / Kimberly Engber

Nonsense club and Monday club : the cultural utopias of Sukumar Ray / Debasish Chattopadhyay

Afterword : Utopia : the ghost of Thomas More / Peter van de Kamp.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Literary utopias of cultural communities, 1790-1910.

ISBN:

9789042030008

9042030003

OCLC:

653242924

Publisher Number:

9786612643040

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Restricted for use by site license.