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1 online resource (278 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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DQR studies in literature ; 46
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DQR studies in literature ; 46.
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| Note |
Papers from the 2006 Leiden October Conference. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreward / Peter Liebregts -- In the churchyard and under the full moon : Radical publisher and his clients and guests / C.C. Barfoot -- Sexual difference : gender, politeness, and conversation in late-eighteenth-century New York City and in Charles Brockden Brown's Alcuin (1798) / Bryan Waterman -- Godwin, Bulwer and Poe : intellectual elitism and the Utopian impulse of popular fiction / Evert Jan van Leeuwen -- A turn to the past : republicanism and Brook Farm / Marilyn Michaud -- Utopian waste at Brook Farm, Fruitlands and Walden Pond / Richard Francis -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's minority report on transcendentalism / Teresa Requena Pelegrí -- Thoreau's individualistic utopia / Daniel Ogden -- Great earth speaking : Richard Jefferies and the transcendentalists / Roger Ebbatson -- Ideal of everyday life in William Morris' News from nowhere / Florence Boos -- Thoughts towards the nature of creativity in literary and cultural communities : Germ and its fruition / Valeria Tinkler-Villani -- A feminist mirage of the new life : utopian elements in The story of an African farm / Wim Tigges -- Towards a feminist collectivism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Nationalist Movement / Marguérite Corporaal -- At home, in Japan : New world literature of Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton / Kimberly Engber -- Nonsense club and Monday club : Cultural utopias of Sukumar Ray / Debasish Chattopadhyay -- Afterword : Utopia : Ghost of Thomas More / Peter van de Kamp. |
| Summary |
This volume of essays by scholars in the field of English and American studies brings together a variety of perspectives on the utopian literature originating from cultural communities from 1790-1910. Ranging from the Lunar society to the Nationalist movement, and from the Transcendentalists to the Indian Monday Club the fifteen peer-reviewed articles examine a wide range of contexts in which utopian literature was written, and will be of interest to scholars in the field of cultural and literary studies alike. Moreover, the volume presents the reader with a unique overview of developments in. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Utopias in literature -- Congresses.
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Utopias in literature. |
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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English literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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American literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Corporaal, Marguérite.
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Leeuwen, Evert Jan van.
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Leiden October Conference (2006)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Literary utopias of cultural communities, 1790-1910. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010 9789042029996 (OCoLC)640095702 |
| ISBN |
9789042030008 (electronic book) |
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9042030003 (electronic book) |
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9042029994 |
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9789042029996 |
| Standard No. |
9786612643040 |
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