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Table of Contents

U.S. American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions: an introduction -- Ralph J. Poole -- Utopian (visionary) spaces.
The United States of America as a transatlantic utopia -- Jaap Verheul
"A sound and uniform currency:" Edgar Allen Poe's monetary utopia -- Heinz Tschachler
Time, space, and utopia in Beasts of the southern wild -- Klaus Rieser
Paris, the sudden dream : place and space in Richard Wright's The long dream -- Joshua Parker -- Utopian (re-)visions in literature.
From a society of second-handers to Galt's Gulch : Ayn Rand's counter-worlds -- Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Radical relating : vampirism as a utopian state in black Atlantic women's vampire fiction -- Svetlana Seibel
Willow Springs : Gloria Naylor's African American womanist utopian vision in Mama Day -- Saskia M. Fürst
Utopian hope in W.E.B. Du Bois's "The comet" -- Hanna Wallinger -- Dystopian visions in literature.
Utopias turned sour : a study of Philip K. Dick's science fiction dystopias -- Damian Podleśny
The poison iv(or)y tower : the academic dance macabre -- Jeanne C. Holland.

Edition Notes

Selected papers originally presented at the 40th Annual Austrian Association for American Studies Conference held, November 8 to 10 in Salzburg.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Zürich
Series
American studies in Austria -- volume 17, American studies in Austria -- v. 17.
Other Titles
U.S. American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions, United States American expressions of utopian and dystopian visions
Copyright Date
2017

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.087609372
Library of Congress
PS374.U8 U8 2013, PS169.U85

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 197 pages
Number of pages
197

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Open Library
OL44553787M
ISBN 10
3643909314
ISBN 13
9783643909312, 9783643959317
OCLC/WorldCat
992729174

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