Utopias of One

About the author

Joshua Kotin is associate professor of English at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member in the university’s Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Summary

Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular--and thus exclusive and inimitable. Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers--Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wa

Additional text

"Joshua Kotin’s book offers a smart and sophisticated account of one mode of modern utopian thought and practice."---Jonathan Flatley, Slavic Review

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Kotin
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780691176710
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17671-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Political science and theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism