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Author Parrington, Vernon Louis, 1913-

Title American dreams; a study of American utopias.

Publication Info. Providence, 1947.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  321.07 P24    Check Shelf
Description viii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Brown University studies ; v. 11
Americana series ; no. 2
Brown University studies ; v. 11.
Brown University studies. Americana series ; no. 2.
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.
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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