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Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society

Roger Gaillard & Danièle Chatelain & George Slusser & Paul Alkon

First published 1999
Publisher AMS Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xxiv+342
Price $64.50
ISBN 0404642551

  • Proceedings from the L'Utopie et ses mĂ©tamorphoses conference, held in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland in June 1991
  • Most essays are in English, but some are in French
  • Date and price from Locus

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Practical Hallucinations: Campanella's CittĂ  del sole Jean-Pierre Barricelli Essay
17 Engendering Utopias: Examples from Eighteenth-Century England Alessa Johns Essay
31 Utopia and the French Romantic Imagination Ceri Crossley Essay
39 Fantasies on the Fringe: Romantic Concepts of Nationalism in Utopias Set at the Edges of Nineteenth Century Europe Ellis Shookman Essay
53 The Traveler to the Past as Seeker After Utopia: Two Scenarios Bud Foote Essay
65 Writing Wells's Dream Book: The Utopia and Science Fiction James Gunn Essay
73 Une contre-utopie anti-comuninste: Le Triomphe de Lénine Joseph Altairac Essay
79 Amours en utopie: version russe Leonid Heller Essay
89 Le Suisse est-il utopiste? Jean-François Thomas Essay
99 Vehicular Utopias of Jules Verne Arthur B. Evans Essay
109 The Influence of Literature on Advertising in the Making of Ephemeral Utopias Pedro Gallardo-Torrano Essay
117 Club Med as Utopia: Antedating the Idyll Amy Boesky Essay
127 From Talmud to Cyberspace: Trancendence at the Interface David Porush Essay
139 Souls on Ice: Cryonics and the Bodily Utopia George Slusser Essay
153 L'Utopie, une formation de l'inconscient Roger Dadoun Essay
169 NoWhere Man: Towards a Poetics of Post-Utopian Characterization Carol McGuirk Essay
181 The Utopian Calendar Paul Alkon Essay
195 The Mines and Quarries of Arcady K. V. Bailey Essay
205 At Play in the Fields of Our Ford: Utopian Dystopianism in Atwood, Huxley, and Zamyatin Laurence Davies Essay
215 "Even Worse, It Could be Perfect": Aspects of the Undesirable Utopia in Modern Science Fiction Edward James Essay
229 Gadgetry, Government, Genetics, and God: The Forms of Science Fiction Utopia Gary Westfahl Essay
243 Raymond Ruyer, un philosophe face à l'Utopie Bertrand Méheust Essay
253 Louise Michel, une utopiste libertaire? Roger Bozzetto Essay
267 The Handmaid's Tale as Richian Re-Visioning of 1984 Jocelyn Harris Essay
281 All You Need Is Love? The Postseparatist Feminist Utopia Marleen Barr Essay
291 L'Utopie ambiguë: erotisme et pouvoir dans quelques utopies féminines récentes Élisabeth Vonarburg Essay
305 The Utopian Paradox: On the Necessity of an Impossible Dream Eric S. Rabkin Essay
317 Dystopian Postscript Paul Alkon Essay
ix Préface: Dessine-moi une utopie Le pari du 700e anniversaire de la Confédération Suisse Roger Gaillard Essay
xiii Introduction: Proteus and the Phoenix: Transformations of Utopian Experience George Slusser Essay