The Obsolete Necessity
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The Obsolete Necessity
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Author : Kenneth M. Roemer
language : en
Publisher: [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
Release Date : 1976
The Obsolete Necessity written by Kenneth M. Roemer and has been published by [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Obsolete Necessity
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Author : Kenneth M. Roemer
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2024
The Obsolete Necessity written by Kenneth M. Roemer and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Political Science categories.
"The Obsolete Necessity expanded the canon of American utopias during their print-culture Golden Era from 40 to more than 160 works. What were the natures and impacts of these fictions? Were they accurate indices to the desires and fears of Americans? Roemer uses a combination biographical research, innovative statistical content analyses, and cultural/historical contextualizations to address these questions. He demonstrates how the utopists' concepts of time, space, and the potential to transform individuals shaped their visions of economies, religion, cities, and women, as well as daily life. Throughout, Roemer emphasizes tense combinations of old and new, and hopes and fears. The new Introduction defines how the utopias are relevant/irrelevant today, incorporates insights from Lyman Tower Sargents's further expansion of the canon, articulates a theory of culture, and concludes with speculations about the creation of "influential" scholarship"--
Looking Backward 2000 1887
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Author : Edward Bellamy
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2003-01-02
Looking Backward 2000 1887 written by Edward Bellamy and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-02 with Fiction categories.
Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep in Boston in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find that the era of competitive capitalism is long over, replaced by an era of co-operation. Wealth is produced by an “industrial army” and every citizen receives the same wage. This edition contains a rich selection of appendices, including excerpts from Bellamy’s Equality and other writings; contemporary responses (by William Morris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others); excerpts from utopian works by Morris and William Dean Howells; and an excerpt from Henry George’s Progress and Poverty.
The Obsolete Empire
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Author : Philip Tsang
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-02
The Obsolete Empire written by Philip Tsang and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies Association The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In The Obsolete Empire, Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers—Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S. Naipaul—to trace an aesthetics of frustrated attachment that emerged in the wake of imperial decline. Caught between an expansive Britishness and an exclusive Englishness, these writers explored what it meant to belong to an empire that did not belong to them. Thanks to their voracious reading of English fiction and poetry in their formative years, all of these writers experienced a richly textured world with which they deeply identified but from which they felt excluded. The literary England they imagined, frozen in time and out of place with the realities of imperial decline, in turn figures in their writings as a repository of unconsummated attachments, contradictory desires, and belated exchanges. Their works arrest the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. Drawing on a rich body of scholarship on affect and temporality, Tsang demonstrates how the British empire endures as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan. By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion, Tsang investigates a unique mode of belonging arising from the predicament of being conscripted into a global empire but not desired as its proper citizen. Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today.
Visions Of Utopia
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Author : Edward Rothstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-02-06
Visions Of Utopia written by Edward Rothstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-06 with Architecture categories.
From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. Three leading cultural critics look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing.
Meals To Come
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Author : Dr. Warren Belasco
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-10-18
Meals To Come written by Dr. Warren Belasco and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-18 with Cooking categories.
In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and here Belasco explores a fascinating array of material ranging over two hundred years—from futuristic novels and films to world's fairs, Disney amusement parks, supermarket and restaurant architecture, organic farmers' markets, debates over genetic engineering, and more. Placing food issues in this deep historical context, he provides an innovative framework for understanding the future of food today—when new prophets warn us against complacency at the same time that new technologies offer promising solutions. But will our grandchildren's grandchildren enjoy the cornucopian bounty most of us take for granted? This first history of the future to put food at the center of the story provides an intriguing perspective on this question for anyone—from general readers to policy analysts, historians, and students of the future—who has wondered about the future of life's most basic requirement.
America As Utopia
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Author : Kenneth M. Roemer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
America As Utopia written by Kenneth M. Roemer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Political Science categories.
The Dark Side Of The Left
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Author : Richard J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Dark Side Of The Left written by Richard J. Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Political Science categories.
Political correctness, idealizing the oppressed, and an affinity for authoritarian and charismatic leaders are all parts of what Ellis calls "the dark side of the left."
Military Construction Appropriations For 1980
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Military Construction Appropriations For 1980 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with United States categories.
Worlds Apart
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Author : Dunja M. Mohr
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2005-06-15
Worlds Apart written by Dunja M. Mohr and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary critics and scholars have written extensively on the demise of the "utopian spirit" in the modern novel. What has often been overlooked is the emergence of a new hybrid subgenre, particularly in science fiction and fantasy, which incorporates utopian strategies within the dystopian narrative, particularly in the feminist dystopias of the 1980s and 1990s. The author names this new subgenre "transgressive utopian dystopias." Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy, Suzy McKee Charna's Holdfast series, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale are thoroughly analyzed within the context of this this new subgenre of "transgressive utopian dystopias." Analysis focuses particularly on how these works cover the interrelated categories of gender, race and class, along with their relationship to classic literary dualism and the dystopian narrative. Without completely dissolving the dualistic order, the feminist dystopias studied here contest the notions of unambiguity and authenticity that are generally part of the canon.