Utopian Spaces of Modernism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Benjamin Kohlmann

      Pages 1-15

3. Ambiguous Utopianism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century

      • Matthew Beaumont

      Pages 19-34

   3. ‘On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension’: Utopian Higher Space

      • Mark Blacklock

      Pages 35-51

   4. Modernism’s Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic

      • David Trotter

      Pages 52-70

   5. Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880–1945

      • Jay Winter

      Pages 71-84

4. Living in Utopia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris’ News from Nowhere

      • Matthew Ingleby

      Pages 87-104

   3. Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism and the Panorama-City

      • Daniel Cook

      Pages 105-120

   4. ‘The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead’: War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction

      • Christina Britzolakis

      Pages 121-140

   5. ‘Hellhole and Paradise’: The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin

      • Andrew Thacker

      Pages 141-156

5. Testing the Limits of Utopia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia and the Apocalypse

      • Axel Stähler

      Pages 159-176

   3. ‘No Less Than a Planet’: Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction

      • Jon Hegglund

      Pages 177-193

   4. The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens

      • Douglas Mao

      Pages 194-213

6. Epilogue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia

      • Iain Sinclair

      Pages 217-230

7. Back Matter

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This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars.

• culture
• English literature
• fiction
• George Eliot
• Modernism
• space
• British and Irish Literature

'The contributors to Rosalyn Gregory and Benjamin Kohlmann's lively collection [undertake] a broadening and loosening of the utopian... Utopian Spaces of Modernism is so stimulating a volume that one could wish for a sequel' - Patrick Parrinder, Modernism/Modernity

'Roughly half of Utopian Spaces of Modernism examines literary and cultural artifacts of the high modernist period, including some of its finest contributions by David Trotter, Jon Hegglund, and Douglas Mao. Nevertheless, Victorianists will find much to engage them here. These smart, quirky case studies do much to substantiate this volume's claim about the pervasiveness and interest of modernist minor utopianism. Nineteenth-century scholars interested in making the journey to utopia will find very good traveling companions.' - Mark Allison, Victorian Studies

• St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK

  Rosalyn Gregory

• English Department, University of Freiburg, Germany

  Benjamin Kohlmann

MATTHEW BEAUMONT Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, UCL, UK MARK BLACKLOCK PhD candidate, Birkbeck College, UK CHRISTINA BRITZOLAKIS Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK DANIEL COOK Associate Professor, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA JON HEGGELUND Associate Professor of English, Washington State University, USA MATTHEW INGLEBY UCL, UK DOUGLAS MAO Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, USA IAIN SINCLAIR Writer, UK AXEL STÄHLER Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, UK ANDREW THACKER Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, De Montfort University, UK DAVID TROTTER King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge, UK JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USA

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