The spectre of Utopia
Subtitle: utopian and science fictions at the fin de siècle
By: Matthew Beaumont
Series: Ralahine utopian studies -- 12
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9783034307253
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Social movements in literature; Literature and society; Science fiction; Social aspects; Philosophy; Utopias; Socialism; Social problems in literature; History
Other titles: Utopian and science fictions at the fin de siècle
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking back at looking backward : panorama, paranoia; title: A little shopping : Looking backward and the dreamscape of consumption; title: A mysterious disappearance : Looking backward and the fugue epidemic; title: City of the absent : socially empty space from Shelley to Bellamy; title: The Bellamy Library : William Reeves and radical publishing; title: Influential force : Shafts and feminist utopianism; title: Elective affinities : socialism, occultism and utopianism; title: What ought to be : Wilde's utopianism in The soul of man under socialism; title: Red sphinx : the mechanics of the uncanny in The time machine; title: Against the infernal yawn : the anamorphic estrangements of science fiction.