Overview
- Explores the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA and how it evolved over the course of the nineteenth century
- Traces the constituents of this relationship through a set of literary examples which have not been analysed together in this combination before
- Highlights how the authors evaluated the utopian potential of the USA, and thus historicizes the development of the utopian imagination from a variety of perspectives
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism (PASU)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howland’s Papas Own Girl (1874), Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899), and Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA’s utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives.
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Book Title: In Search of the Utopian States of America
Book Subtitle: Intentional Communities in Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century
Authors: Verena Adamik
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60279-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60278-9Published: 02 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60281-9Published: 03 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60279-6Published: 01 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4471
Series E-ISSN: 2946-448X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 248
Topics: US History, History, general, Cultural History, North American Literature