The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman--who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers'...

A survey of fourteen lectures addressing the idea of utopia, presented by Fred E. Baumann, political science professor and director of the Public Affairs Conference Center at Kenyon College. Examines a number of key works on utopia and discusses efforts to put utopian principles into practice.