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Utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America, 1888-1918

Title: Utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America, 1888-1918 / Francis Robert Shor.
Author: Shor, Francis Robert.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.

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Description

xviii, 219 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions in American history, 0084-9219 ; number 178

Uniform Title

Contributions in American history ; no. 178.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Utopian fiction – United States – History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-211) and index.

Contents

Introduction: "A better world's in birth" -- Utopianism and radicalism in literary expressions. The ideological matrix of reform in late nineteenth-century America: reading Bellamy's Looking Backward ; The "new woman" in turn-of-the-century utopian fiction: Bellamy's Equality and Gilman's "A woman's utopia" ; Racial boundaries and "hidden" African-American utopias: Grigg's Imperium in Imperio and Hopkin's "Of one blood" ; Socialism and its discontents: London's The iron heel and reader response -- Utopianism and radicalism in political and communal projects. Journeying to socialism: utopian communal experiments in the 1890s ; Anarchist utopianism in the progressive era ; Oppositional utopianizing and the political/cultural project: the Paterson and Star of Ethiopia pageants ; From socialist colony to socialist city: the Llano del Rio utopian experiment in California -- The dilemmas of utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America.

ISBN

0313303797
9780313303791

LCCN

97009380

OCLC

ocm36656417
36656417
SCSB-14698814

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library