Utopian Spaces of Modernism: British Literature and Culture, 1885–1945

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Socially Empty Space and Dystopian Utopianism in the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 19-34
‘On the Eve of the Fourth Dimension’: Utopian Higher Space....Pages 35-51
Modernism’s Material Futures: Glass, and Several Kinds of Plastic....Pages 52-70
Minor Utopias and the British Literary Temperament, 1880–1945....Pages 71-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Utopian Bloomsbury: The Grounds for Social Dreaming in William Morris’ News from Nowhere....Pages 87-104
Utopia from the Rooftops: H.G. Wells, Modernism and the Panorama-City....Pages 105-120
‘The Strange High Singing of Some Aeroplane Overhead’: War, Utopia and the Everyday in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction....Pages 121-140
‘Hellhole and Paradise’: The Heterotopic Spaces of Berlin....Pages 141-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
The Re-Conceptualization of Space in Edwardian Prophecy Fiction: Heterotopia, Utopia and the Apocalypse....Pages 159-176
‘No Less Than a Planet’: Scale-Bending in Modernist Fiction....Pages 177-193
The Unseen Side of Things: Eliot and Stevens....Pages 194-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Two Towers, Plus One: The Ends of Utopia....Pages 217-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-235