This book is about the fiercely contrasting visions of two of the nineteenth centurys greatest utopian writers. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study, it emphasizes that space is a key factor in utopian fiction, often a barometer of mankinds successful relationship with nature, or an indicator of danger. Emerging and critically acclaimed scholars consider the legacy of two great utopian writers, exploring their use of space and time in the creation of sites in which contemporary social concerns are investigated and reordered. A variety of locations is featured, including Morriss quasi-fourteenth century London, the lush and corrupted island, a routed and massacred English countryside, the high-rises of the future and the vertiginous landscape of another Earth beyond the stars.
Introduction;?Emelyne Godfrey.- SETTING THE SCENE.-?Kelmscott House: Threshold to Utopia;?Michael Sherborne.- PART I. TIME AS A KIND OF SPACE.-?1. Imaginary Hindsight: Contemporary History in William Morris and H. G. Wells;?Helen Kingstone.-?2. Quivers of Idiosyncrasy: Modern Statistics in A Modern Utopia;?Genie Babb.-?3. All Good Earthly Things Are In Utopia Also: Familiarity and Irony in the Better Worlds of Morris and Wells;?Ben Carver.- PART II. MATTERS OUT OF PLACE: DANGER AND DISRUPTION IN UTOPIA.-?4. Problems in Utopia from the Thames Valley to the Pacific Edge;?Tony Pinkney.-?5. Utopias the Thing: An Analysis of Utopian Program and Impulse in H.G. Wellss The Island of Doctor Moreau;?Rhys Williams.-?6. Great Safe Places Down Deep: Subterranean Spaces in the Early Novels of H.G. Wells;?Catherine Redford.- PART III. DISTORTED REALITIES, SHATTERED PERSPECTIVES.- 7. The Urban Wasteland in H.G. Wellss The War of the Worlds;?Vera Benczik.-?8. An Epistemological Journey: the Uncertainty of Construed Realities in The Time Machine;?K?roly Pint?r.- PART IV. UNNATURAL THEOLOGIES IN THE ISLAND.-?9. Dark Artistry in <ló‡
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