Utopian Spaces of Modernism

British Literature and Culture, 1885–1945

  • Rosalyn Gregory
  • Benjamin Kohlmann
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Benjamin Kohlmann
      Pages 1-15

  3. Ambiguous Utopianism

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century
      Matthew Beaumont
      Pages 19-34
    3. ‘On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension’: Utopian Higher Space
      Mark Blacklock
      Pages 35-51
    4. Modernism’s Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic
      David Trotter
      Pages 52-70
    5. Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880–1945
      Jay Winter
      Pages 71-84

  4. Living in Utopia

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 85-85
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    2. Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris’ News from Nowhere
      Matthew Ingleby
      Pages 87-104
    3. Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism and the Panorama-City
      Daniel Cook
      Pages 105-120
    4. ‘The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead’: War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
      Christina Britzolakis
      Pages 121-140
    5. ‘Hellhole and Paradise’: The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin
      Andrew Thacker
      Pages 141-156

  5. Testing the Limits of Utopia

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 157-157
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    2. The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia and the Apocalypse
      Axel Stähler
      Pages 159-176
    3. ‘No Less Than a Planet’: Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction
      Jon Hegglund
      Pages 177-193
    4. The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens
      Douglas Mao
      Pages 194-213

  6. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 215-215
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    2. Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia
      Iain Sinclair
      Pages 217-230
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 231-235
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About this book

Introduction

This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars.

Keywords

culture English literature fiction George Eliot Modernism space

Editors and affiliations

  • Rosalyn Gregory
    • 1
  • Benjamin Kohlmann
    • 2
  1. 1.St Anne’s CollegeUniversity of OxfordUK
  2. 2.English DepartmentUniversity of FreiburgGermany

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358300
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-33833-7
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-35830-0
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