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This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars.
Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; B.Kohlmann PART I: AMBIGUOUS UTOPIANISM Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century; M.Beaumont 'On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension': Utopian Higher Space; M.Blacklock Modernism's Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic; D.Trotter Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880-1945; J.Winter PART II: LIVING IN UTOPIA Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris's News from Nowhere; M.Ingleby Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism, and the Panorama-City; D.Cook 'The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead': War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf's Fiction; C.Britzolakis 'Hellhole and Paradise': The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin; A.Thacker PART III: TESTING THE LIMITS OF UTOPIA The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia, and the Apocalypse; A.Stähler 'No Less Than a Planet': Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction; J.Hegglund The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens; D.Mao PART IV: EPILOGUE Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia; I.Sinclair Index
