In search of the utopian states of America : intentional communities in novels of the long nineteenth century /: intentional communities in novels of the long nineteenth century. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Verena Adamik.
• Authors: Adamik, Verena
• Contents: 1. 'An Achieved Utopia': Introduction.2. 'Notoriously a Tricky Term': A Short History of the Term Utopia.3. 'Idle Speculation' and Utopian Practice: Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants (1793).4. 'Between Fiction and Reality': The Utopian Past in The Blithedale Romance (18525. 'A Great Republic of Equals': Postbellum Utopia in Marie Howland's Papa's Own Girl (1874).6. 'Shrouded in an American Flag': Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio (1899).7. 'A Bold Regeneration': W.E.B. Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911).8. 'Like so Many Sparks from a Comet': Utopian Visions and Their National Trajectory.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813.309355; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Societies in literature; Utopias in literature; United States -- In literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030602796
• Related ISBNs: 9783030602789
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