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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: ‘The Optimal State of a Republic’: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: ‘That Excellent Perfection’: A Short History of Utopia
‘Far from Us’: The Psychology of Utopian Production
‘In the Beginning, All the World Was America’: European Origins of US American Utopianism
References
Chapter 3: ‘Idle Speculation’ and Utopian Practice: Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793)
‘Antipathy to Control’: Challenges to Nationhood and the Early Republic
‘Societies of This Kind Established Throughout a Great Community’: The Emigrants’s Separatism
‘All the Comforts of Living in the Most Superfluous Abundance’: Geographical Determinism
‘Most Dangerous to the Safety of Society’: Romantic Relationships and Utopia in The Emigrants
‘Decisive Action’: Establishing Utopia in The Emigrants
References
Chapter 4: ‘Between Fiction and Reality’: The Utopian Past in The Blithedale Romance (1852)
‘Numberless Projects of Social Reform’: The Communal Wave of the Nineteenth Century
No ‘Conclusion Favorable or Otherwise’: Blithedale’s Utopianism
‘Better Air to Breathe’: Blithedale’s Promising Beginnings
‘A Cold Arcadia’: Utopian Aspirations Unfulfilled
‘Faery’ Instead of ‘Virgin’ Land: The Fate of Utopia in The Blithedale Romance
References
Chapter 5: ‘A Great Republic of Equals’: Postbellum Utopia in Marie Howland’s Papa’s Own Girl (1874)
‘A Story of American Life’: Utopianism, Women’s Rights, and Marie Howland
‘Papa Is a Radical, They Say; So Are We’: Gender and Collaboration
‘Love is Not All that There is to Life’: Romance and the Utopian Narrator
‘Never a Possible Question of Equality’: Utopia Surviving the Civil War
References
Chapter 6: ‘Shrouded in an American Flag’: Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899)
‘A Contest of Two Ideologies’: Conflicting Solutions in Imperium in Imperio
‘Make the Separation Physical’: Race and the Lack of Closure
‘Beneath the American Flag’: Utopian States for African Americans
‘Our Race as an Empire’: US American Empire in the Imperium
‘Mightier Weapon’: Final Appeals in Imperium in Imperio
References
Chapter 7: ‘A Bold Regeneration’: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)
‘Of the Whole Nation’: Systemic Complexities and Far-Reaching Solutions
‘Field of Dreams’ and ‘Toil beyond Exhilaration’: Geographic Symbolism
‘The Real and Mighty World’ and the ‘Old and Shaken Dream’: Combining Literary Traditions
‘A New National Errand’: Appropriating the National Tradition
‘The Battle Scarcely Even Begun’: Decolonizing Utopian Space
References
Chapter 8: ‘To Begin the World Over Again’: Conclusion
References
Index

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