Titlebook: In Search of the Utopian States of America; Intentional Communit Verena Adamik Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 20

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Verena Adamikcations today.Offers a relevant contribution to discussions .This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisis and disorientation over pol

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the middle ages to the early modern period..Provides a new .This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-kn

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Book 2020in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s. The Emigrants. (1793)., .Hawthorne’s .The Blithedale Romance .(1852), Howland’s .Papas Own Girl. (1874), Griggs’s .Imperium in Imperio .(1899), and Du Bois’s .The Quest of the Silver Fleece .(1911). The

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,‘That Excellent Perfection’: A Short History of Utopia,idered possible. The second subchapter offers a cursory overview of the European ‘utopian’ history of North America up until the American Revolution, establishing that utopia, as we know it, is heavily entangled with modern nationhood and imperialism.

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,‘Between Fiction and Reality’: The Utopian Past in , (1852),pular in the United States for decades. Ultimately, the narrator relishes the absence of any utopian potential because it absolves him from all obligations to try his hand at utopianism. Instead, the utopian past serves him well as the space for historical romances.

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,‘A Great Republic of Equals’: Postbellum Utopia in Marie Howland’s , (1874),till offering protagonists romantic bliss. While Howland’s take on women’s rights is strikingly insightful, another aspect of her utopianism is highly problematic: the novel glosses over anti-black systemic violence and in this way foreshadows the racial homogeneity of many successful utopian novels of the late-nineteenth century.

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,‘Shrouded in an American Flag’: Sutton E. Griggs’s , (1899),rative inhibits the utopian imagination of African Americans. Thus, the novel is also an important addition to the US American utopian canon, which focuses predominantly on the bestselling utopian novels that were written by White authors at the end of the century, and that tend to exclude Black people from the future of the nation.

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2946-4471 nstituents of this relationship through a set of literary ex.This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: I