Gregory, Rosalyn
Utopian Spaces of Modernism
1. Introduction
Benjamin Kohlmann
Part I. Ambiguous Utopianism
2. Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Matthew Beaumont
3. ‘On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension’: Utopian Higher Space
Mark Blacklock
4. Modernism’s Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic
David Trotter
5. Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880–1945
Jay Winter
Part II. Living in Utopia
6. Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris’
Matthew Ingleby
7. Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism and the Panorama-City
Daniel Cook
8. ‘The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead’: War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
Christina Britzolakis
9. ‘Hellhole and Paradise’: The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin
Andrew Thacker
Part III. Testing the Limits of Utopia
10. The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia and the Apocalypse
Axel Stähler
11. ‘No Less Than a Planet’: Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction
Jon Hegglund
12. The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens
Douglas Mao
Part IV. Epilogue
13. Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia
Iain Sinclair
Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literary History
- Editor
- Gregory, Rosalyn
- Kohlmann, Benjamin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 245 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230358300
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33833-7