Victorian Visions Of Suburban Utopia
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Victorian Visions Of Suburban Utopia
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Author : Nathaniel Robert Walker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-11-26
Victorian Visions Of Suburban Utopia written by Nathaniel Robert Walker and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-26 with History categories.
A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studies utopian visions published in the UK and the USA in the 1800s by writers such Robert Owen, James Silk Buckingham, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris.
Victorian Visions Of Suburban Utopia
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Author : Nathaniel Robert Walker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-17
Victorian Visions Of Suburban Utopia written by Nathaniel Robert Walker 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 2020-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century. In Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia, Nathaniel Walker asks: why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find "the best of the city and the country" in the flowery suburbs? While looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, Walker argues that a great missing piece of the story can be found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries — such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H. G. Wells — are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As varied as their futuristic visions could be, Walker reveals how most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Utopian And Dystopian Literatures
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Author : Peter Marks
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-03-15
The Palgrave Handbook Of Utopian And Dystopian Literatures written by Peter Marks and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.
The Victorian Vision
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Author : Margaret M. Maison
language : en
Publisher: New York, Sheed and Ward
Release Date : 1962
The Victorian Vision written by Margaret M. Maison and has been published by New York, Sheed and Ward this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with English fiction categories.
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 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.
Visions And Revisions A Book Of Literary Devotions
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Author : John Cowper Powys
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
Visions And Revisions A Book Of Literary Devotions written by John Cowper Powys and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with History categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions" by John Cowper Powys. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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.
The Story Of Utopias
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Author : Lewis Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1928
The Story Of Utopias written by Lewis Mumford and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with categories.
Bourgeois Utopias
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Author : Robert Fishman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-08-01
Bourgeois Utopias written by Robert Fishman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-01 with Social Science categories.
A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.
A Modern Utopia
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Author : by H. G. Wells
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-03-03
A Modern Utopia written by by H. G. Wells and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-03 with Literary Collections categories.