The spectre of Utopia

Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-

The spectre of Utopia utopian and science fictions at the fin de siècle / [electronic resource] : Utopian and science fictions at the fin de siècle Matthew Beaumont. - Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012. - xii, 307 p. - Ralahine utopian studies, v. 12 1661-5875 ; .

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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Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898. Looking backward.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Soul of man under socialism.
Wells, H. G. 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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