Title |
American dreams; a study of American utopias. |
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Publication Info. |
Providence, 1947. |
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New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction
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321.07 P24 |
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Description |
viii, 234 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Brown University studies ; v. 11 |
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Americana series ; no. 2 |
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Brown University studies ; v. 11.
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Brown University studies. Americana series ; no. 2.
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Note |
"In its original form ... submitted to Brown University as a doctoral thesis in American literature." |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages[219]-229. |
Contents |
The New World and Utopia -- Early satirists -- Two rebels -Mrs. Mary Griffith and Cooper -- Sylvester Judd -Unitarian -- Foufouville, Excelsior and Blithedale -- Edward Everett hale and Mark Twain -- Radical backgrounds -- The precursors of Bellamy -- Bellamy and his critics -- The reformer as historian -- The politician considers Utopia -- Utopia points a moral -- The Charles H. Kerr Company and Utopia -- Utopia now -- Mars and Utopia -- The utilitarian considers Utopia -- The Utopia of escape -- Cooperation -the new way to God and Utopia -- Two Californians -- Sheldon and Howells -Christian dreamers -- Dreams of two decades -- Muckrakers -and practical Utopians -- The preoccupied twenties -- The Depression years -- Another war and more dreams. |
Subject |
Utopias.
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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