Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910.
Title:
Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910.
Author:
Corporaal, Marguerite.
ISBN:
9789042030008
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Series:
DQR Studies in Literature
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- In the Churchyard and Under the Full Moon: The Radical Publisher and His Clients and Guests -- "The Sexual Difference": Gender, Politeness, and Conversation in Late-Eighteenth-Century New York City and in Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin (1798) -- Godwin, Bulwer and Poe: Intellectual Elitism and the Utopian Impulse of Popular Fiction -- A Turn to the Past: Republicanism and Brook Farm -- Utopian Waste at Brook Farm, Fruitlands and Walden Pond -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Minority Report on Transcendentalism -- Thoreau's Individualistic Utopia -- "The Great Earth Speaking": Richard Jefferies and the Transcendentalists -- The Ideal of Everyday Life in William Morris' News From Nowhere -- Thoughts Towards the Nature of Creativity in Literary and Cultural Communities: The Germ and Its Fruition -- A Feminist Mirage of the New Life: Utopian Elements in The Story of an African Farm -- Towards a Feminist Collectivism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Nationalist Movement -- At Home, in Japan: The New World Literature of Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton -- Nonsense Club and Monday Club: The Cultural Utopias of Sukumar Ray -- Afterword: Utopia -The Ghost of Thomas More -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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