The Obsolete Necessity
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-80079-864-9 (ISBN)
The Obsolete Necessity expanded the canon of American utopias during their print-culture Golden Era from 40 to more than 160 works. What were the natures and impacts of these fictions? Were they accurate indices to the desires and fears of Americans? Roemer uses a combination biographical research, innovative statistical content analyses, and cultural/historical contextualizations to address these questions. He demonstrates how the utopists’ concepts of time, space, and the potential to transform individuals shaped their visions of economies, religion, cities, and women, as well as daily life. Throughout, Roemer emphasizes tense combinations of old and new, and hopes and fears. The new Introduction defines how the utopias are relevant/irrelevant today, incorporates insights from Lyman Tower Sargents’s further expansion of the canon, articulates a theory of culture, and concludes with speculations about the creation of “influential” scholarship.
Kenneth Roemer (Harvard ’67, Penn ‘71) Emeritus Fellow, UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers, authored four utopia books, including Utopian Audiences (2004), America as Utopia (1981), and the Pulitzer-nominated Obsolete Necessity (1976). Native literature books include his co-edited Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).
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 the Individual 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
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.02.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Ralahine Utopian Studies ; 34 |
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Michael G. Kelly |
Zusatzinfo | 26 Illustrations, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80079-864-4 / 1800798644 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80079-864-9 / 9781800798649 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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