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Looking backward, looking forward: Visions of utopia and progress in turn-of-the-century American literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Looking backward, looking forward: Visions of utopia and progress in turn-of-the-century American literature./
Author:	Vella, Lia Mary.
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Major Professor: Carrie Tirado Bramen.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-01A
Subject:	American Studies -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3076540
ISBN:	0493968954

Looking backward, looking forward: Visions of utopia and progress in turn-of-the-century American literature.
Vella, Lia Mary.

Looking backward, looking forward: Visions of utopia and progress in turn-of-the-century American literature. - 307 p.

Major Professor: Carrie Tirado Bramen.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.

Between 1888 and 1930, utopian literary and cultural productions suggest that America underwent a fundamental shift in its attitude toward progress, from futuristic to nostalgic outlook.

ISBN: 0493968954Subjects--Topical Terms:

1260272
American Studies

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520 $a Beginning with two of the period's widest-reaching cultural artifacts, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and Bellamy's novel <italic>Looking Backward </italic>, this dissertation examines American utopian projections. The prominent utopian works of the 1890s promoted a mechanized future or a nostalgic Jeffersonian agrarian vision; these works, by authors including Bellamy, William Dean Howells, Bradford Peck, Ignatius Donnelly, and Mark Twain also confront issues of order, totality, the collapse of time and space, and consumerism. In the end, consumer culture, which encompasses aspects of both cultural visions, appears to have absorbed much of the energy represented by the production and consumption of utopian literature.
520 $a The consumer ethos continued to exert its influence beyond 1900, as L. Frank Baum “sold” a naturalized vision of technology and encouraged the course of progress by stimulating his readers' imaginations. On the other hand, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's works encourage readers to, like consumers, “bring home” her portrayals of utopia and utopian-oriented action and integrate them into their lives, thereby setting a course of progress that would include women and domestic spaces in the achievement of utopia
520 $a The production of conventional utopian literature declined significantly by the end of World War I, but fictions that presented nostalgic views of the American West became more prevalent. Historically a commodified region, the “old” West became the site of utopian longings and consumer desire. Southwestern regionalist literature has represented one facet of the western myth of authenticity; the presentation of western “history” by Wister and Cather provides both validation and resistance to the myth. All of these works sell a myth of nostalgia or authenticity to a consumer audience, just as does western tourism. Thus, the ideal, the utopia, the end-point of progress, has been shifted to the realm of nostalgia, as Americans discounted the possibility of future utopia and looked backward toward a romanticized past, now fully commodified
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