Utopian Spaces of Modernism

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors  Introduction; B.Kohlmann PART I: AMBIGUOUS UTOPIANISM Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century; M.Beaumont 'On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension': Utopian Higher Space; M.Blacklock Modernism's Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic; D.Trotter Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880-1945; J.Winter PART II: LIVING IN UTOPIA Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris's News from Nowhere; M.Ingleby Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism, and the Panorama-City; D.Cook 'The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead': War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf's Fiction; C.Britzolakis 'Hellhole and Paradise': The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin; A.Thacker PART III: TESTING THE LIMITS OF UTOPIA The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia, and the Apocalypse; A.Stähler 'No Less Than a Planet': Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction; J.Hegglund The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens; D.Mao PART IV: EPILOGUE Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia; I.Sinclair Index