Francis Robert Shor

Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America

1888-1918

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Utopianism and radicalism achieve greater prominence when economic and social crises render the dominant moral and political universe open to question. The essays in this book examine how utopianism and radicalism informed the literary expressions, political discourse, communal experiments, and cultural projects in the U.S. from 1888 to 1918. In particular, these essays track how socialism, anarchism, syndicalism, feminism, and black nationalism contested the ideological terrain during a period when reform ideas and movements were beginning to reshape that terrain. The degree to which utopianism and radicalism were involved in that reformulation, either in its expanse or its constraint, is of prime interest throughout the book. Teachers and students interested in utopian studies, American studies, and the cultural/intellectual history of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era will find this book highly useful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780313303791
• ISBN-10: 0313303797
• Artikelnr.: 25570119

Autorenporträt

FRANCIS ROBERT SHOR is Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Wayne State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "A Better World's in Birth" Utopianism and Radicalism in
Literary Expressions The Ideological Matrix of Reform in Late
Nineteeth-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: Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and Hopkins'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: 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 Experiment in California Conclusion:
The Dilemmas of Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America Selected
Bibliography Index