Looking back at looking backward : panorama, paranoia -- A little shopping : Looking backward and the dreamscape of consumption -- A mysterious disappearance : Looking backward and the fugue epidemic -- City of the absent : socially empty space from Shelley to Bellamy -- The Bellamy Library : William Reeves and radical publishing -- Influential force : Shafts and feminist utopianism -- Elective affinities : socialism, occultism and utopianism -- What ought to be : Wilde's utopianism in The soul of man under socialism -- Red sphinx : the mechanics of the uncanny in The time machine -- Against the infernal yawn : the anamorphic estrangements of science fiction.
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