Title & Author:

Utopias and the millennium / edited by Krishan Kumar and Stephen Bann.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 1993.

Description:

ix, 164 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Critical views

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-159) and index.
Introduction / Stephen Bann -- 1. The Frontiers of Utopia / Louis Marin -- 2. Formal Utopia/Informal Millennium: The Struggle between Form and Substance as a Context for Seventeenth-century Utopianism / J.C. Davis -- 3. From Robinson to Robina, and Beyond: Robinson Crusoe as a Utopian Concept / Louis James -- 4. Utopianism, Property, and the French Revolution Debate in Britain / Gregory Claeys -- 5. The End of Socialism? The End of Utopia? The End of History? / Krishan Kumar -- 6. The Metamorphosis of the Apocalyptic Myth: From Utopia to Science Fiction / Vita Fortunati -- 7. 'Politics Here is Death': William Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night / David Ayers -- 8. Utopia the Good Breast: Coming Home to Mother / Jan Relf -- 9. McTopia: Eating Time / John O'Neill.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0948462442 (pbk.)
0948462450
9780948462450
9780948462443 (pbk.)

Subject:

Utopias.
Millennialism.
Millennium (Eschatology)
Utopies.
Millénarisme.
Millénium.
millenarianism.
17.93 themes and motives in literature.
89.06 political philosophy.
Utopie
Aufsatzsammlung
Chiliasmus
Letterkunde.
Utopische literatuur.
Utopieën.

Form/genre:

Utopias.

Added entries:

Kumar, Krishan, 1942-
Bann, Stephen.
Critical views.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300022
Call No.: BIB 246184
Status: Available