UID:
almahu_9949702025602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047407096
,
9789004142961
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Series ; 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:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Utopia Ltd. : Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 ISBN 9789004142961
Language:
English
