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| Author | : Matthew Beaumont |
| Publisher | : Ralahine Utopian Studies |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literature and society |
| ISBN | : 9783034307253 |
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In the late nineteenth century, a spectre haunted Europe and the United States: the spectre of utopia. This book re-examines the rise of utopian thought at the fin de siècle, situating it in the social and political contradictions of the time and exploring the ways in which it articulated a deepening sense that the capitalist system might not be insuperable after all. The study pays particular attention to Edward Bellamy's seminal utopian fiction, Looking Backward (1888), embedding it in a number of unfamiliar contexts, and reading its richest passages against the grain, but it also offers detailed discussions of William Morris, H.G. Wells and Oscar Wilde. Both historical and theoretical in its approach, this book constitutes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the utopian imaginary, and an original analysis of the counter-culture in which it thrived at the fin de siècle.
| Author | : Ruth Levitas |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Utopian socialism |
| ISBN | : 9783039113668 |
Download The Concept of Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published: London: Philip Allan, 1990.
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| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 817 |
| Release | : 2023-11-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0198881037 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text.
| Author | : Barbara Goodwin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1136337636 |
Download The Philosophy of Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection addresses the important function of utopianism in social and political philosophy and includes debate on what its future role will be in a period dominated by dystopian nightmare scenarios.
| Author | : Mark Featherstone |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2017-02-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351815881 |
Download Planet Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist utopian vision, which is most clearly expressed in theories of global finance, is no longer sustainable today. This book concerns the status of utopian thinking in contemporary global society and the possibility of imagining alternative ways of living outside of capitalism. Using a range of sociological and philosophical theories to write the first intellectual history of the capitalist utopia in English, Featherstone provokes the reader into thinking about ways of moving beyond this model of organising social life through sociological modes of thought. Indeed, this enlightening volume seeks to show how utopian thinking about the way people should live has been progressively captured by capitalism with the result that it is difficult to imagine alternatives to capitalist society today. Presenting sociology and sociological thinking as a utopian alternative to the capitalist utopia, Planet Utopia will appeal to postgraduate and postdoctoral students interested in subjects including Sociology, Social Theory, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory and Continental Philosophy.
| Author | : Carter F. Hanson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2020-06-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000165957 |
Download Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For a genre that imagines possible futures as a means of critiquing the present, utopian/dystopian fiction has been surprisingly obsessed with how the past is remembered. Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature’s preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as sources of the utopian impulse. Through a series of close readings of utopian/dystopian novels informed by theory and dialectics, Hanson provides a case study history of how and why memory emerged as a problem for utopia, and how recent dystopian texts situate memory as a crucial mode of utopian agency. Hanson demonstrates that many modern and contemporary writers of the genre consider the presence of certain forms of memory as necessary to the project of imagining better societies or to avoiding possible dystopian outcomes.
| Author | : Maxim Shadurski |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2019-08-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000682870 |
Download The Nationality of Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the twentieth century, H. G. Wells linked utopia to the World State, whose post-national, post-Westphalian emergence he predicated on English national discourse. This critical study examines how the discursive representations of England’s geography, continuity, and character become foundational to the Wellsian utopia and elicit competing response from Wells’s contemporaries, particularly Robert Hugh Benson and Aldous Huxley, with further ramifications throughout the twentieth century. Contextualized alongside modern theories of nationalism and utopia, as well as read jointly with contemporary projections of England as place, reactions to Wells demonstrate a shift from disavowal to retrieval of England, on the one hand, and from endorsement to rejection of the World State, on the other. Attempts to salvage the residual traces of English culture from their degradation in the World State have taken increasing precedence over the imagination of a post-national order. This trend continues in the work of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, J. G. Ballard, and Julian Barnes, whose future scenarios warn against a world without England. The Nationality of Utopia investigates utopia’s capacity to deconstruct and redeploy national discourse in ways that surpass fear and nostalgia.
| Author | : Arthur Leslie Morton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Utopias |
| ISBN | : 9781789974195 |
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"A.L. Morton's classic 1952 study of utopias in the context of British social history constitutes one of the earliest sustained engagements with the social and ideological sources of the utopian imagination, the transformation of its function, content and direction in different historical moments, the importance of the class struggle for literary production and of literary production for cultural, if not political hegemony. Traversing English literary history from the medieval poem on the Land of Cockaygne to Sir Thomas More and his Puritan revisions in the seventeenth century, to Defoe's and Swift's paradigmatic adaptations of utopian and dystopian themes and from thence to William Morris's towering achievement in News from Nowhere and the subsequent decline of the genre and the eventual rise of anti-utopian and dystopian strains in the early twentieth century, The English Utopia remains provocative and critically engaging more than seventy years after its original publication, testifying to the vitality of British Marxist Literary Criticism from its earliest inception. In addition to charting its significance as an intervention, the present edition also brings to light Morton's complex role as Left political activist, historian, scholarly catalyst and cultural critic-a paradigmatic instance of the engaged and public intellectual"--
| Author | : Emelyne Godfrey |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2016-12-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137523409 |
Download Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space is a key factor in utopian fiction, often a barometer of mankind’s successful relationship with nature, or an indicator of danger. Emerging and critically acclaimed scholars consider the legacy of two great utopian writers, exploring their use of space and time in the creation of sites in which contemporary social concerns are investigated and reordered. A variety of locations is featured, including Morris’s quasi-fourteenth century London, the lush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English countryside, the high-rises of the future and the vertiginous landscape of another Earth beyond the stars.
| Author | : R. Levitas |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2013-07-25 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137314257 |
Download Utopia as Method Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
