THE OBSOLETE NECESSITY: AMERICA IN UTOPIAN WRITINGS, 1888-1900. [Kent, Ohio]: The Kent State University Press, [1976]. Octavo, pp. [i-xi] xii-xiv [1] 2-239 [240: note about the author] [241-242: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations, cloth. First edition. A comprehensive study of the vast body of late nineteenth-century American utopian and anti-utopian literature analyzed within its historical and philosophical contexts. Includes excerpts from the works under consideration and an extensive annotated bibliography of primary and secondary material. The checklist of primary works provides a concise summary of 160 utopian fictions by American writers published from Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) through 1900. "...insightful and well written... bibliography is excellent." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-54. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear at edges and several short closed tears, two at top edge of front panel with associated crease, with several small internal tape mends to same. (#64286).
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