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xii, 307 p. Looking back at looking backward : panorama, paranoia -- A little shopping : Looking backward and the dreamscape of consumption -- A mysterious disappearance : Looking backward and the fugue epidemic -- City of the absent : socially empty space from Shelley to Bellamy -- The Bellamy Library : William Reeves and radical publishing -- Influential force : Shafts and feminist utopianism -- Elective affinities : socialism, occultism and utopianism -- What ought to be : Wilde's utopianism in The soul of man under socialism -- Red sphinx : the mechanics of the uncanny in The time machine -- Against the infernal yawn : the anamorphic estrangements of science fiction. Matthew Beaumont. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Bellamy, Edward 1850-1898 Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Utopias in literature Social problems in literature Social movements in literature Science fiction Social aspects Utopias Philosophy Socialism Philosophy Literature and society History PN56.U8 B43 2012eb 809/.93372 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10600626 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10600626 CaPaEBR 111007 ebr10600626