Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity

by Phillip Wegner and Phillip E. Wegner

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Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this far-reaching study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. Considering the narrative utopia from its earliest manifestation in Thomas More's sixteenth-century work Utopia to some of the most influential utopias of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book is an astute study of a literary genre as...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520228294

ISBN13:9780520228290

Release Date:June 2002

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:323 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Movements & Periods Philosophy

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