Utopia Ltd Ideologies Of Social Dreaming In England 1870-1900

This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century "fin de sihcle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contribution not only to the literary and cultural history of the late-Victorian period, and to the expanding field of utopian studies, but to the development of a Marxist critique of utopianism. The book is particularly concerned with three kinds of political utopia or anti-utopia, those of 'state socialism', feminism, and anti-communism (the characteristic expression of this last example being the "cacotopia). After an extensive contextual account of the politics of utropia in late-nineteenth century England, it devotes a chapter to each of these topics before developing an original reinterpretation of William Morris's seminal Marxist utopia, "News from Nowhere.Beaumont, Matthew is the author of 'Utopia Ltd Ideologies Of Social Dreaming In England 1870-1900', published 2005 under ISBN 9789004142961 and ISBN 9004142967.