Ken Roemer

The Obsolete Necessity (eBook, PDF)

America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Obsolete Necessity greatly expanded the canon of utopias during their Golden Era. Roemer examines insights offered about American attitudes ranging from equality and technology to gender and religion. The new Introduction incorporates insights from an expanded canon and concludes with speculations about creating "influential" scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800798656
• Artikelnr.: 72280624

Autorenporträt

Kenneth M. Roemer (Harvard '67, Penn '71) Emeritus Fellow, University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers, is the author of four utopia books, including Utopian Audiences (2004), America as Utopia (1981), and the Pulitzernominated Obsolete Necessity (1976). Native literature books include his co-edited Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Utopias and Utopian Authors: Possibilities and Limits - Time: Puritan History Revisited - Space: Virgin Land Again? - The Individual: Converted, Led, Whitewashed, and Conditioned - Filling the Belly and the Soul - Shaping Time, Space, and Individuals with Machines, Schools, and Mothers - The Simplicity and Unity of a Day in Utopia - The "City upon a Hill": New Visions, Old Dreams - The Obsolete Necessity: America as Utopia.