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03223aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 D1ECE71C7E8911E893E09E1097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180703010845 008 171003t20182018njua b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2018931636 020 $a 9780691154169 020 $a 0691154163 035 $a (OCoLC)1005116508 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d SVP $d CDX $d GP5 $d JNE $d NYP $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.U8 $b R58 2018 082 04 $a 809/.93372 $2 23 100 1 $a Robertson, Michael $c (Professor of English), $e author. 245 14 $a The last utopians : $b four late nineteenth-century visionaries and their legacy / $c Michael Robertson. 246 34 $a Last utopians : $b four late 19th century visionaries and their legacy 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a viii, 318 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index. 505 0 $a 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 Utiopians. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Bellamy, Edward, $d 1850-1898 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Morris, William, $d 1834-1896 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Carpenter, Edward, $d 1844-1929 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, $d 1860-1935 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Utopias in literature. 941 $a 5 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200228010146.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20200228010026.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212024103.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103014955.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006121344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D1ECE71C7E8911E893E09E1097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search