Utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America, 1888-1918
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Utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America, 1888-1918
（Contributions in American history, no. 178）
Greenwood Press, 1997
Available at 21 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [193]-211
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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