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, 0921-2507 ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias in literature--Congresses.

Utopias in literature.

Communities--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Communities.

Communities--Great Britain--History--19th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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. Moreover, the volume presents the reader with a unique overview of developments in Utopian thinking and literature throughout the long nineteenth century. Specific attention is paid to the transatlantic nature of cultural communities in which utopian writings were produced and read as well as to the colonial contexts of nineteenth-century utopian literature. As such, the collection offers a novel approach to a tradition of utopian writing that was essentially transcultural.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910

FOREWORD / 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 ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910

INDEX / Editors The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910.

Notes:

"This volume of essays has grown out of the last October Conference to be organised by the English Department of Leiden University in 2006."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-64304-5

9786612643040

90-420-3000-3

OCLC:

653242924

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042030008 DOI