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Italian Renaissance Utopias
Doni, Patrizi, and Zuccolo
Inbunden, 2019
986 kr
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This book provides the first English study (comprehensive of introductory essays, translations, and notes) of five prominent Italian Renaissance utopias: Doni’s Wise and Crazy World, Patrizi’s The Happy City, and Zuccolo’s The Republic of Utopia, The Republic of Evandria, and The Happy City. The …
Artistic Utopias of Revolt
Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol
Häftad, 2019
567 kr
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This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have …
In Search of the Utopian States of America
Intentional Communities in Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2020
1079 kr
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This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne’s The Blithedale …
In Search of the Utopian States of America
Intentional Communities in Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2021
1079 kr
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This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne’s The Blithedale …
Fourierist Communities of Reform
The Social Networks of Nineteenth-Century Female Reformers
Av Amy Hart
Inbunden, 2021
1575 kr
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This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal …
Fourierist Communities of Reform
The Social Networks of Nineteenth-Century Female Reformers
Av Amy Hart
Häftad, 2022
1575 kr
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This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal …
Utopias in Nonfiction Film
Inbunden, 2022
1463 kr
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'Comprehensive and thorough, Utopias in Nonfiction Film takes a new direction in its surprise application to documentary that has the potential to shake up the field.'- Jane Gaines, Columbia University, USA'Spiegel has introduced a new sub-genre to utopian studies, the documentary film. The book …
Utopias in Nonfiction Film
Häftad, 2023
1463 kr
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'Comprehensive and thorough, Utopias in Nonfiction Film takes a new direction in its surprise application to documentary that has the potential to shake up the field.'- Jane Gaines, Columbia University, USA'Spiegel has introduced a new sub-genre to utopian studies, the documentary film. The book …
Ludovico Agostini’s 'Imaginary Republic'
Utopia in the Italian Renaissance
Inbunden, 2022
1203 kr
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This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostini’s Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has …
Ludovico Agostini’s 'Imaginary Republic'
Utopia in the Italian Renaissance
Häftad, 2023
1203 kr
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This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostini’s Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has …
Body Utopianism
Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement
Inbunden, 2022
1575 kr
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This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. It is the first comprehensive study to address the paradoxical relationship between bodies and utopianism. Franziska …
Body Utopianism
Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement
Häftad, 2023
1575 kr
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This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. It is the first comprehensive study to address the paradoxical relationship between bodies and utopianism. Franziska …
Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1556 kr
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This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon. Utopian studies is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and this research integrates …
Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature
Häftad, 2024
1556 kr
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This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon. Utopian studies is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and this research integrates …
Early British Socialism and the ‘Religion of the New Moral World’
Av Edward Lucas
Inbunden, 2023
1529 kr
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This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that Owenites offer a re-conception of the nature …
Early British Socialism and the ‘Religion of the New Moral World’
Av Edward Lucas
Häftad, 2024
1529 kr
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This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that Owenites offer a re-conception of the nature …
Post-Apocalyptic Cultures
New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity
Av Julia Urabayen, Jorge León Casero
Inbunden, 2024
1575 kr
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This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). …
Post-Apocalyptic Cultures
New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity
Av Julia Urabayen, Jorge León Casero
Häftad, 2025
1575 kr
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This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). …
Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds
Alternative Political Projects After the Sovereign State
Av Jorge León Casero, Julia Urabayen
Inbunden, 2024
1575 kr
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This book is both a conceptualization and detailed analysis of the current crisis in which modern utopian categories of political institutions find themselves, as well as a reflection and clarification of the new dangers and opportunities facing post-utopian politics in-the-making. Met with those …
Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds
Alternative Political Projects After the Sovereign State
Av Jorge León Casero, Julia Urabayen
Häftad, 2025
1575 kr
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This book is both a conceptualization and detailed analysis of the current crisis in which modern utopian categories of political institutions find themselves, as well as a reflection and clarification of the new dangers and opportunities facing post-utopian politics in-the-making. Met with those …
A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Inbunden, 2025
1529 kr
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This is the first book-length treatment of the life and thought of the Communist intellectual A. L. Morton (1903–1987) who pioneered studies of utopianism, radical history, and English national identity. Morton is now best known for A People's History of England (1938) and The English Utopia …
A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition
Häftad, 2026
1529 kr
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This is the first book-length treatment of the life and thought of the Communist intellectual A. L. Morton (1903–1987) who pioneered studies of utopianism, radical history, and English national identity. Morton is now best known for A People's History of England (1938) and The English Utopia …
Utopia and Democracy
Theories, Practices, Fictions
Av Zsolt Czigányik, Iva Dimovska
Inbunden, 2025
1463 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between utopia and democracy, challenging the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that an ideal society is inherently democratic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book covers an extensive range of historical periods and …
Early Modern Anti-Utopias
The Critique of Utopianism during the 16th-19th Centuries
Av Corin Braga
Inbunden, 2027
1616 kr
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Dystopias and counter-utopias appeared as a literary (sub)genre long before the well-known texts authored by Zamyatin, Orwell and Huxley in the twentieth century. This book documents the emergence and development of classical anti-utopias from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It starts …
William Morris’s Utopianism
Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration
Av Owen Holland
Inbunden, 2017
1351 kr
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This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the life-world of the …
Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700
Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality
Inbunden, 2017
959 kr
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This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the …
Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark
From Paternalism to Socialism
Inbunden, 2017
1015 kr
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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early socialism in Britain. Drawing …
Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction
Av Thomas Horan
Inbunden, 2018
1318 kr
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This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken …
Artistic Utopias of Revolt
Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol
Inbunden, 2018
551 kr
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This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have …
William Morris’s Utopianism
Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration
Av Owen Holland
Häftad, 2018
1351 kr
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This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the life-world of the …
