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Utopia ltd : ideologies of social dreaming in England, 1870-1900 / by Matthew Beaumont.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; 7.
- Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Utopias in literature.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Social problems in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Utopia limited
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siècle , and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contribution not only to the literary and cultural history of the late-Victorian period, and to the expanding field of utopian studies, but to the development of a Marxist critique of utopianism. The book is particularly concerned with three kinds of political utopia or anti-utopia, those of 'state socialism', feminism, and anti-communism (the characteristic expression of this last example being the cacotopia ). After an extensive contextual account of the politics of utopia in late-nineteenth century England, it devotes a chapter to each of these topics before developing an original reinterpretation of William Morris's seminal Marxist utopia, News from Nowhere .
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- History and Utopia at the Fin de Siècle
- State Socialism and Utopia
- Feminism and Utopia
- Anti-Communism and the Cacotopia
- Utopia and the Present in News from Nowhere
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Historicalmaterialism Book Series.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86771-X
- 9786610867714
- 1-4294-5281-1
- 90-474-0709-1
- 1-4337-0377-7
- OCLC:
- 191945036
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047407096 DOI
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