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Utopias of One (Hardcover)
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Utopias of One (Hardcover)
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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, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J.
H. Prynne--construct utopias of one within and against modernity's
two large-scale attempts to harmonize individual and collective
interests: liberalism and communism. The book begins in the United
States between the buildup to the Civil War and the end of Jim
Crow; continues in the Soviet Union between Stalinism and the late
Soviet period; and concludes in England and the United States
between World War I and the end of the Cold War. The book, in this
way, captures how writers from disparate geopolitical contexts
resist state and normative power to construct perfect worlds--for
themselves alone. Utopias of One makes a vital contribution to
debates about literature and politics, presenting innovative
arguments about aesthetic difficulty, personal autonomy, and
complicity and dissent. The book also models a new approach to
transnational and comparative scholarship, combining original
research in English and Russian to illuminate more than a century
and a half of literary and political history.
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