The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-2999-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

This volume of essays by scholars in the field of English and American studies brings together a variety of perspectives on the utopian literature originating from cultural communities from 1790-1910. Ranging from the Lunar society to the Nationalist movement, and from the Transcendentalists to the Indian Monday Club the fifteen peer-reviewed articles examine a wide range of contexts in which utopian literature was written, and will be of interest to scholars in the field of cultural and literary studies alike. Moreover, the volume presents the reader with a unique overview of developments in Utopian thinking and literature throughout the long nineteenth century. Specific attention is paid to the transatlantic nature of cultural communities in which utopian writings were produced and read as well as to the colonial contexts of nineteenth-century utopian literature. As such, the collection offers a novel approach to a tradition of utopian writing that was essentially transcultural.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Corporaal, Marguérite

Leeuwen, Evert Jan van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Peter Liebregts: Foreword
C.C. Barfoot: In the Churchyard and Under the Full Moon: The Radical Publisher and His Clients and Guests
Bryan Waterman: “The Sexual Difference”: Gender, Politeness, and Conversation in Late-Eighteenth-Century New York City and in Charles Brockden Brown’s Alcuin (1798)
Evert Jan van Leeuwen: Godwin, Bulwer and Poe: Intellectual Elitism and the Utopian Impulse of Popular Fiction
Marilyn Michaud: A Turn to the Past: Republicanism and Brook Farm
Richard Francis: Utopian Waste at Brook Farm, Fruitlands and Walden Pond
Teresa Requena Pelegrí: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Minority Report on Transcendentalism
Daniel Ogden: Thoreau’s Individualistic Utopia
Roger Ebbatson: “The Great Earth Speaking”: Richard Jefferies and the Transcendentalists
Florence Boos: The Ideal of Everyday Life in William Morris’ News from Nowhere
Valeria Tinkler-Villani: Thoughts Towards the Nature of Creativity in Literary and Cultural Communities: The Germ and Its Fruition
Wim Tigges: A Feminist Mirage of the New Life: Utopian Elements in The Story of an African Farm
Marguérite Corporaal: Towards a Feminist Collectivism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Nationalist Movement
Kimberly Engber: At Home, in Japan: The New World Literature of Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton
Debasish Chattopadhyay: Nonsense Club and Monday Club: The Cultural Utopias of Sukumar Ray
Peter van de Kamp: Afterword: Utopia –The Ghost of Thomas More
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Evert Jan van Leeuwen (Leiden University) are lecturers in English and American literature in the Netherlands.