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Title:

Utopian spaces of modernism : British literature and culture, 1885-1945 / edited by Rosalyn Gregory and Benjamin Kohlmann.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 235 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Literature and society--England--History--20th century.
Utopias in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

Other Authors:

Gregory, Rosalyn, 1984-
Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Benjamin Kohlmann -- Socially empty space and dystopian utopianism in the late nineteenth century / Matthew Beaumont -- 'On the eve of the fourth dimension': utopian higher space / Mark Blacklock -- Modernism's material futures: glass, and several kinds of plastic / David Trotter -- Minor utopias and the British literary temperament, 1880-1945 / Jay Winter -- Utopian Bloomsbury: the grounds for social dreaming in William Morris' news from nowhere / Matthew Ingleby -- Utopia from the rooftops: H.G. Wells, modernism and the Panorama-city / Daniel Cook -- 'The strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead': war, utopia and the everyday in Virginia Woolf's fiction / Christina Britzolakis -- 'Hellhole and paradise': the heterotopic spaces of Berlin / Andrew Thacker -- The re-conceptualization of space in Edwardian prophecy fiction: heterotopia, utopia and the apocalypse / Axel Stähler -- 'No less than a planet': scale-bending in modernist fiction / Jon Hegglund -- The unseen side of things: Eliot and Stevens / Douglas Mao -- Two towers, plus one: the ends of utopia / Iain Sinclair.

ISBN:

0230303722 (hardback)
9780230303720 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748328735

LCCN:

2011042950

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)