A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studies utopian visions published in the UK and the USA in the 1800s by writers such Robert...
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A study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studies utopian visions published in the UK and the USA in the 1800s by writers such Robert Owen, James Silk Buckingham, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris. Cover -- Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia -- Copyright -- Words of Thanks -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Introduction: The Dream Before the Dream -- 1: "God Made the Country, Man Made the Town": The Foundations of Modern Suburban Utopias -- In Their Vain Attempt: Eden vs. Babel -- The Godly City: On Earth as It Is in Heaven? -- The Nature of the Beautiful: Plato's Perfected Polis -- Thomas More and the Extent of Our Horizon -- The Great Restoration: Science as the Means to the Millennium -- The Englishman Swears to "Search Out Some Village" -- 2: Socialist Schemes and Suburban Dreams -- New Earthly Paradise: The First Industrial Socialist Utopias -- The Greatest Green for the Greatest Number -- Crystal Palaces vs. Crooked Lanes: The Last Owenite -- Greater Perfection: The Future of (Fictional) Architecture -- 3: Urban Non-Fiction and Suburban Science Fiction -- Everything Bad and Vicious: Non-Fiction Urban Horror Stories -- Bulwer-Lytton's Science-Fiction Sensation -- Reach Unto Heaven: Urban London vs. Suburban Mars -- The Future of the Metropolis: Towers, Parks, and Deadly Ruin -- 4: Empires of Hygiene and Horror -- Hygienic Homes for Hygienic Humans -- Unlamented London: The Mount of Our Former Folly -- George MacDonald and the Perfectly Monstrous Metropolis -- Terrace Homes, Tile, Glass, and Greensward: A City of Health -- Building Hygeia: To Stand Practically in Gardens -- Utopia and Dystopia Collide: The Boiling-Down Establishments -- 5: The Republic of the Future -- A City Spread Over a Large Garden -- A City of Eve vs. the Suburbs of Adam -- Gardens of Happiness: Suburban Futures Gain Currency -- Progress and Poverty: Setting the Stage for Desperate Dreaming -- Embosomed Amid Trees: American Utopias Take the Scene -- The Socialists and the Spiritualists Strike at the City.
