The Story of Utopias

'''Mumford, Lewis. The Story of Utopias.''' 1922. New York: Viking (Compass), 1962.

Introd. to utopian thought from Plato's Republic through H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia; see for E. Bellamy's Looking Backward (q.v. under Fiction) and for LM on the great models of the Country House and Coketown (aristocratic vs. more modern, industrialized utopias). Relates literary utopias to social thought; see under Background, citations for other works by LM.

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