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America as Utopia

Print Book, English, c1981
B. Franklin, New York, c1981
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 410 pages ; 24 cm. (8vo).
9780891021698, 0891021698
5726114
Defining America as utopia / Kenneth M. Roemer
[The authors' views]
How and why I wrote Looking backward / Edward Bellamy
Utopia as an experimental culture / B.F. Skinner
I write entopian novels / Robert H. Rimmer
Buck Rogers in the new Jerusalem / Thomas M. Disch
[Case studies]
Anticipating the sunburst
dream and vision : the exemplary case of Bellamy and Morris / Darko Suvin
The mysterious traveler in the speculative fiction of Howells and Twain / Frederick E. Pratter
Jack London's utopian dystopia and dystopian utopia / Gorman Beauchamp
The ghost in the machine : the theme of player piano / David Y. Hughes
[Themes, types, and forms]
The impact of political theory on narrative structures / Jean Pfaelzer
The utopian hero / Arthur O. Lewis
The new world that Eve made : feminist utopias written by nineteenth-century women / Barbara C. Quissell
The well-manicured landscape : nature in utopia / Donald C. Burt
In search of Zion : an annotated bibliography of the ten lost tribes of Israel in utopia / Stuart Teitler
Capitalist eutopias in America / Lyman Tower Sargent
The modern shrunken utopia / Robert Plank
[Bibliographic and historical surveys]
From millennium to utopia Americana / Joel Nydahl
Early fictional futures, 1798-1864 / Joel Nydahl
Post-Civil war, pre-looking backward utopia : 1865-87 / Charles J. Rooney
Utopia and Victorian culture : 1888-99 / Kenneth M. Roemer
Utopia divesified : 1900-49 / Howard P. Segal
Eutopias and dystopias in science fiction : 1950-75 / Lyman Tower Sargent
A selected checklist of secondary sources / Kenneth M. Roemer
[Epilogue]
Extract from 'An ambiguous utopia' / Ursula K. LeGuin