Utopian Novels In Victorian England
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Utopian Novels In Victorian England
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Author : Silke Bosch
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-12-10
Utopian Novels In Victorian England written by Silke Bosch and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Victorian Novels, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare three of the most influential Utopian novels of the Victorian era in Great Britain: William Morris ́ News from Nowhere, Samuel Butler ́s Erewhon and Edward Bulwer-Lytton ́s The Coming Race. ... I will concentrate on a specific aspect which struck me as most interesting. The question I want to pose is in how far the works are still hopeful and positive and how far they are already disillusioned and negative. Do they consider the idea of a utopian and perfect society to be desirable and possible? I found that Morris’ News from Nowhere is still a classic Utopia as it depicts a hopeful prospect of an ideal state of society, but it also introduces a new notion. A utopian society is not something out of human reach, but can be realised entirely. Morris’ basis was Marx’ theory and he really believed in the possibility of a truly communist and happy nation. Butler’s work Erewhon should be rather called a satire, as it is mostly a criticism of Victorian society. But still, it uses the frame of a Utopian fiction and therefor also comments on it. From Erewhon can be concluded that mankind is not capable of true improvement and that a perfect system is intolerant and oppressive. Lytton’s work The Coming Race is a mixture of criticism, offering answers and for the most part a discussion of the perfectibility of men and the desirability of perfection, coming to the conclusion that perfection and the desire for it is rather a threat to mankind.
Utopia Ltd
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Author : Matthew Beaumont
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-03-01
Utopia Ltd written by Matthew Beaumont and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-01 with Political Science categories.
This literary-historical account of late-nineteenth century utopianism offers a fascinating rereading of the fin de siècle in terms of the political futures that were produced in England during a period of cultural upheaval, and marks an original contribution to the Marxist critique of utopian ideology.
Victorian Fantasists
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Author : David Jasper
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1991-04-05
Victorian Fantasists written by David Jasper and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Utopias And Dystopias In The Fiction Of H G Wells And William Morris
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Author : Emelyne Godfrey
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Utopias And Dystopias In The Fiction Of H G Wells And William Morris written by Emelyne Godfrey and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth century’s greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space is a key factor in utopian fiction, often a barometer of mankind’s successful relationship with nature, or an indicator of danger. Emerging and critically acclaimed scholars consider the legacy of two great utopian writers, exploring their use of space and time in the creation of sites in which contemporary social concerns are investigated and reordered. A variety of locations is featured, including Morris’s quasi-fourteenth century London, the lush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English countryside, the high-rises of the future and the vertiginous landscape of another Earth beyond the stars.
News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest
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Author : William Morris
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-02
News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest written by William Morris and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Fiction categories.
This book from the pioneer of the utopian genre presents a vision of the future through the eyes of the 19th-century socialist. It describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane future.
News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest Being Some Chapters From A Utopian Romance 1890
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Author : William Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-23
News From Nowhere Or An Epoch Of Rest Being Some Chapters From A Utopian Romance 1890 written by William Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-23 with categories.
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. It was first published in serial form in the Commonweal journal beginning on 11 January 1890. In the novel, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work.The novel explores a number of aspects of this society, including its organisation and the relationships which it engenders between people. Morris fuses Marxism and the romance tradition when he presents himself as an enchanted figure in a time and place different from Victorian England. As Morris, the romance character, quests for love and fellowship-and through them for a reborn self-he encounters romance archetypes in Marxist guises. Old Hammond is both the communist educator who teaches Morris the new world and the wise old man of romance. Dick and Clara are good comrades and the married lovers who aid Morris in his wanderings. The journey on the Thames is both a voyage through society transformed by revolution and a quest for happiness. The goal of the quest, met and found though only transiently, is Ellen, the symbol of the reborn age and the bride the alien cannot win. Ellen herself is a multidimensional figure: a working class woman emancipated under socialism, she is also a benign nature spirit as well as the soul in the form of a woman.[1] The book offers Morris' answers to a number of frequent objections to socialism, and underlines his belief that socialism will entail not only the abolishment of private property but also of the divisions between art, life, and work.
England S Lost Eden Adventures In A Victorian Utopia
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Author : Philip Hoare
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-11-22
England S Lost Eden Adventures In A Victorian Utopia written by Philip Hoare and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with History categories.
A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today.
News From Nowhere
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Author : William Morris
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-27
News From Nowhere written by William Morris and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-27 with categories.
News From Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest being some chapters from A Utopian Romance by William Morris. News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the novel, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production. In this society there is no private property, no big cities, no authority, no monetary system, no divorce, no courts, no prisons, and no class systems. This agrarian society functions simply because the people find pleasure in nature, and therefore they find pleasure in their work. The novel explores a number of aspects of this society, including its organisation and the relationships which it engenders between people. Morris fuses Marxism and the romance tradition when he presents himself as an enchanted figure in a time and place different from Victorian England. As Morris, the romance character, quests for love and fellowship-and through them for a reborn self-he encounters romance archetypes in Marxist guises. Old Hammond is both the communist educator who teaches Morris the new world and the wise old man of romance. Dick and Clara are good comrades and the married lovers who aid Morris in his wanderings. The journey on the Thames is both a voyage through society transformed by revolution and a quest for happiness. The goal of the quest, met and found though only transiently, is Ellen, the symbol of the reborn age and the bride the alien cannot win. Ellen herself is a multidimensional figure; a working class woman emancipated under socialism, she is also a benign nature spirit as well as the soul in the form of a woman. The book offers Morris' answers to a number of frequent objections to socialism, and underlines his belief that socialism will entail not only the abolishment of private property but also of the divisions between art, life, and work.
Erewhon
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Author : Samuel Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Erewhon written by Samuel Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with categories.
Samuel Butler was a prominent English writer during the Victorian era. Butler wrote on a great variety of subjects and his books Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh are considered classics in English literature.Erewhon is a satirical utopian novel centering around a fictional country. The book is also notable for its criticism of various aspects of Victorian culture including criminal law and religion.
3 Books To Know Dystopian Fiction
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher: Tacet Books
Release Date : 2020-05-02
3 Books To Know Dystopian Fiction written by Jack London and has been published by Tacet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Dystopian Fiction. Samuel Butler used his tale, Erewhon, to satirize the injustices of Victorian England through a utopian society in which all customs and social laws were the exact opposite of what they were in England. This anti-utopian novel, like many experimental Victorian literary works, resists easy categorization. The Sleeper Awakes is a novel by H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The book has elements explored later both in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Iron Heel is a novel by Jack London, first published in 1907. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and '70s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. The book is unusual among the literature of the time in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.