Utopia Ltd.

Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14296-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beaumont, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. History and Utopia at the Fin de Siècle
2. State Socialism and Utopia
3. Feminism and Utopia
4. Anti-Communism and the Cacotopia
5. Utopia and the present in News from Nowhere

Conclusion
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Beaumont, D. Phil. (2000) in English Literature at the University of Oxford, is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at University College London.