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The spectre of Utopia utopian and science fictions at the fin de siαecle /

Main Author: Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.
Subjects:
Bellamy, Edward, > 1850-1898.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
Wells, H. G. > 1866-1946.
Utopias in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Social movements in literature.
Science fiction > Social aspects.
Utopias > Philosophy.
Socialism > Philosophy.
Literature and society > History.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10600626
Table of Contents:
  • Looking back at looking backward : panorama, paranoia
  • A little shopping : Looking backward and the dreamscape of consumption
  • A mysterious disappearance : Looking backward and the fugue epidemic
  • City of the absent : socially empty space from Shelley to Bellamy
  • The Bellamy Library : William Reeves and radical publishing
  • Influential force : Shafts and feminist utopianism
  • Elective affinities : socialism, occultism and utopianism
  • What ought to be : Wilde's utopianism in The soul of man under socialism
  • Red sphinx : the mechanics of the uncanny in The time machine
  • Against the infernal yawn : the anamorphic estrangements of science fiction.

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