US American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions
By: edited by Saskia Fürst, Yvonne Kaisinger, Ralph Poole
Contributors: Austrian Association for American Studies. Conference
Series: American studies in Austria -- volume 17; American studies in Austria -- v. 17.
Publisher: LIT
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9783643909312; 9783643959317
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Congresses; Dystopias in literature; American fiction; History and criticism
Other titles: U.S. American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions; United States American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions
Notes: Selected papers originally presented at the 40th Annual Austrian Association for American Studies Conference held, November 8 to 10 in Salzburg.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: U.S. American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions: an introduction  -- Ralph J. Poole -- Utopian (visionary) spaces.; title: The United States of America as a transatlantic utopia  -- Jaap Verheul; title: "A sound and uniform currency:" Edgar Allen Poe's monetary utopia  -- Heinz Tschachler; title: Time, space, and utopia in Beasts of the southern wild  -- Klaus Rieser; title: Paris, the sudden dream : place and space in Richard Wright's The long dream  -- Joshua Parker -- Utopian (re-)visions in literature.; title: From a society of second-handers to Galt's Gulch : Ayn Rand's counter-worlds  -- Claudia Franziska Brühwiler; title: Radical relating : vampirism as a utopian state in black Atlantic women's vampire fiction  -- Svetlana Seibel; title: Willow Springs : Gloria Naylor's African American womanist utopian vision in Mama Day  -- Saskia M. Fürst; title: Utopian hope in W.E.B. Du Bois's "The comet"  -- Hanna Wallinger -- Dystopian visions in literature.; title: Utopias turned sour : a study of Philip K. Dick's science fiction dystopias  -- Damian Podleśny; title: The poison iv(or)y tower : the academic dance macabre -- Jeanne C. Holland.