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THE OBSOLETE NECESSITY: AMERICA IN UTOPIAN WRITINGS, 1888-1900 by Roemer, Kenneth M - 1976
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THE OBSOLETE NECESSITY: AMERICA IN UTOPIAN WRITINGS, 1888-1900
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[Kent, Ohio]: The Kent State University Press, 1976. Octavo, pp. [i-xi] xii-xiv [1] 2-239 [240: note about the author] [241-242: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations, cloth. First edition. A comprehensive study of the vast body of late nineteenth-century American utopian and anti-utopian literature analyzed within its historical and philosophical contexts. Includes excerpts from the works under consideration and an extensive annotated bibliography of primary and secondary material. The checklist of primary works provides a concise summary of 160 utopian fictions by American writers published from Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) through 1900. "...insightful and well written... bibliography is excellent." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-54. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with several short closed tears and light rubbing at edges. (#50093)
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The obsolete necessity : America in utopian writings, 1888-1900 / by Kenneth M. Roemer
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Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-213) and index. Contents; Utopias and Utopian Authors: Possibilities and Limits -- Time: Puritan History Revisited -- Space: Virgin Land Again? -- The Individual: Converted, Led, Whitewashed and Conditioned -- Filling the Belly and the Soul -- Shaping Time, Space and Individuals with Machines, Schools and Mothers -- The Simplicity and Unity of a Day in Utopia -- The ""City upon a Hill"": New Visions, Old Dreams -- The Obsolete Necessity: America as Utopia. Subjects: Utopie. Geschichte 1888-1900. 1800-1899. Geschichte 1888-1900 Utopias United States. Utopias History 19th century. Utopias in literature. American…
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