TY - BOOK AU - Robertson,Michael TI - The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy SN - 9781400889600 AV - PN56.U8 U1 - 809.93372 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Utopias in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General KW - bisacsh KW - Activism KW - Americans KW - Capitalism KW - Career KW - Charles Fourier KW - Charlotte Perkins Gilman KW - Civilization KW - Communalism (political philosophy) KW - Contemporary society KW - Counterculture KW - Courtship KW - Dystopia KW - Edward Bellamy KW - Edward Carpenter KW - Enthusiasm KW - Eugenics KW - Friedrich Engels KW - Gender equality KW - George Bernard Shaw KW - Herland (novel) KW - His Family KW - Household KW - Ideology KW - Inception KW - Individualism KW - Intellectual KW - John Ruskin KW - John Stuart Mill KW - Laborer KW - Lecture KW - Literature KW - Looking Backward KW - Lyman Tower Sargent KW - Marxism KW - Matthew Carter KW - Modernity KW - Mother KW - Mrs KW - Narrative KW - New Atlantis KW - New Lanark KW - News from Nowhere KW - Nonviolence KW - Novelist KW - Nuclear family KW - Of Education KW - Owenism KW - Patriarchy KW - Philosopher KW - Poet laureate KW - Poetry KW - Political philosophy KW - Politics KW - Populism KW - Progress and Poverty KW - Progressivism in the United States KW - Publication KW - Ralph Waldo Emerson KW - Rossetti KW - Slavery KW - Slum KW - Thomas Carlyle KW - Transcendentalism KW - Utopia KW - Utopian and dystopian fiction KW - Utopian socialism KW - Utopian studies KW - Wealth KW - Working class KW - Writing N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. Locating Nowhere --; CHAPTER 2. Edward Bellamy’s Orderly Utopia --; CHAPTER 3. William Morris’s Artful Utopia --; CHAPTER 4. Edward Carpenter’s Homogenic Utopia --; CHAPTER 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Motherly Utopia --; CHAPTER 6. After the Last Utopians --; Notes --; Bibliographical Note --; Index; restricted access N2 - The entertaining story of four utopian writers—Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. In this lively literary history of a time before "Orwellian" entered the cultural lexicon, Michael Robertson reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late nineteenth-century American and British writers.The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society.These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat UR - https://doi.org/10.23943/9781400889600?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889600 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400889600/original ER -