Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917Bloomsbury Academic, 24.01.1985 - 224 Seiten Charles J. Rooney offers an analysis and descriptive bibliography of American utopian fiction between 1865 and 1917, the most productive period in the history of this genre. Rooney explores the history and sources of utopian writing in America, as reflected in the attitudes and values of the utopian writers, the problems they were most concerned with, and the types of solutions they offered. A quantitative analysis of the 106 works he identified as utopian reveals that utopian authors were most concerned with the increasing disparity between rich and poor. Rooney points out that although no one section of the country monopolized the output of utopian writing, the backgrounds of the authors were surprisingly similar. He finds that the solutions they proposed reflected their values and intellectual heritage as well as their political, economic, and social expectations of American society. |
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... beginning in 1715 and ending in 1864 ; whereas between 1865 and 1917 , at least 120 utopias appeared . " 998 This absence of a tradition of utopian writing before 1865 in America was partly due to the Puritan antipathy to all things ...
... beginning in 1715 and ending in 1864 ; whereas between 1865 and 1917 , at least 120 utopias appeared . " 998 This absence of a tradition of utopian writing before 1865 in America was partly due to the Puritan antipathy to all things ...
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... beginning of the end . " 49 Crime , depravity , and alcoholism were frequently attributed to long hours and poor working conditions . This obvious relationship did much to change the utopian's older belief that such failures were 54 ...
... beginning of the end . " 49 Crime , depravity , and alcoholism were frequently attributed to long hours and poor working conditions . This obvious relationship did much to change the utopian's older belief that such failures were 54 ...
Inhalt
Utopia and America | 3 |
Sources of Utopian Thought | 19 |
Specific Problems and Solutions | 41 |
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Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917 Charles Rooney Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1985 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
advocated Alfred Hutchinson America Arena Publishing authors Bachelder believed Bellamy's Boston Byron Brooks Caryl Century Charles H Chicago churches citizens Co-Opolitan Commonwealth cooperative Dague David Wheeler Day of Prosperity declared distribution of wealth doctrine Dowding Earth Revisited economic Edward Bellamy Edward Everett Hale Edward House equality ethic evils felt G. W. Dillingham George Henry Olerich Herbert Heywood Herbert Spencer human Ibid idea Ideal City ideal society Ignatius Donnelly individual individualist utopian Industrial Utopia Jack London James Cowen Kerr Kerr & Co labor laissez faire land Leggett Limit of Wealth living Mars Merrill monopoly moral Nationalist nature one's organized Paul Devinne Peck Persinger Phelps Philip Dru political Populist principle problem production progress reform religion Republic Richard Hatfield Roadtown selfish social socialist Solomon Schindler solution Sybaris thought Tibbles utopian writer values Wheeler William women Woodridge York