Utopia ltd [[electronic resource] ] : ideologies of social dreaming in England, 1870-1900 / / by Matthew Beaumont

• Autore: Beaumont Matthew <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.809372
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Social problems in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 .
• Altri titoli varianti: Utopia limited
• Titolo autorizzato: Utopia ltd
• ISBN: 1-280-86771-X; 9786610867714; 1-4294-5281-1; 90-474-0709-1; 1-4337-0377-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784187803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical materialism book series ; ; 7.