This ebook is ready the fiercely contrasting visions of 2 of the 19th century’s maximum utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary examine, it emphasizes that house is a key think about utopian fiction, frequently a barometer of mankind’s profitable courting with nature, or a hallmark of probability. rising and seriously acclaimed students think about the legacy of 2 nice utopian writers, exploring their use of house and time within the production of web sites within which modern social issues are investigated and reordered. numerous destinations is featured, together with Morris’s quasi-fourteenth century London, the plush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English nation-state, the high-rises of the longer term and the vertiginous panorama of one other Earth past the celebs.
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