The spectre of Utopia [electronic resource] : utopian and science fictions at the fin de siècle / Matthew Beaumont.
Material type: TextSeries: Ralahine utopian studies ; v. 12Publication details: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.Description: xii, 307 pOther title:- Utopian and science fictions at the fin de siècle
- Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Soul of man under socialism
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. Time machine
- Utopias in literature
- Social problems in literature
- Social movements in literature
- Science fiction -- Social aspects
- Utopias -- Philosophy
- Socialism -- Philosophy
- Literature and society -- History
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- PN56.U8 B43 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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