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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 Romance__ (1852), Howland’s __Papas Own Girl__ (1874), Griggs’s __Imperium in Imperio__ (1899), and Du Bois’s __The Quest of the Silver Fleece__ (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA’s utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives.

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Author

Verena Adamik

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030602789

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History