UID:
almafu_9959239395002883
Format:
1 online resource (227 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-86771-X
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9786610867714
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1-4294-5281-1
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90-474-0709-1
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1-4337-0377-7
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series, v. 7
Content:
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 .
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-14296-7
Language:
English
