Utopian spaces of modernism[electron...
Gregory, Rosalyn, (1984-)

 

  • Utopian spaces of modernism[electronic resource] :British literature and culture, 1885-1945 /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 820.9/112
    Title/Author: Utopian spaces of modernism : British literature and culture, 1885-1945 // edited by Rosalyn Gregory and Benjamin Kohlmann.
    other author: Gregory, Rosalyn,
    Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    Description: 1 online resource.
    Notes: Includes index.
    Subject: English literature - History and criticism. - 20th century
    Subject: Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain.
    Subject: Literature and society - History - 20th century. - England
    Subject: Utopias in literature.
    Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
    Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
    ISBN: 9780230358300 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230358306 (electronic bk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors� -- Introduction; B.Kohlmann -- PART I: AMBIGUOUS UTOPIANISM -- Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century; M.Beaumont -- 'On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension': Utopian Higher Space; M.Blacklock -- Modernism's Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic; D.Trotter -- Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880-1945; J.Winter -- PART II: LIVING IN UTOPIA -- Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris's News from Nowhere; M.Ingleby -- Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism, and the Panorama-City; D.Cook -- 'The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead': War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf's Fiction; C.Britzolakis -- 'Hellhole and Paradise': The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin; A.Thacker -- PART III: TESTING THE LIMITS OF UTOPIA -- The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia, and the Apocalypse; A.S�thler -- 'No Less Than a Planet': Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction; J.Hegglund -- The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens; D.Mao -- PART IV: EPILOGUE -- Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia; I.Sinclair -- Index -- --.
    [NT 15000229]: This volume undertakes a reassessment of the role of utopianism in modernist literature. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book features contributions by leading academics, as well as innovative work by younger scholars. The collection calls into question the condemnation of utopianism b6 s especially its identification with totalitarian rule b6 s which became popular in the second half of the twentieth century. Contributions explore the utopian visions of major writers like Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce and place their works in dialogue with neglected figures such as Charles Howard Hinton, the New Age occultists, and Edwardian authors of prophecy fiction.
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230358300
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