Utopian England: community experiments, 1900-1945

Abstract

Chapter 1 - Quest for Perfection. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained. A Very Unusual Period. Shifting Boundaries. Chapter 2- The Land of Utopia. England's Grief. Opportunity and Expediency. A Wartime Refuge. Chapter 3 - Cities in the Sun. The Urban Anti-Christ. Garden City Salvation. Building Utopia. New Horizons. City of Friends. Modern Utopia. Chapter 4 - The Art of Community. Arts and Crafts in the Countryside. Cells of the Good Life. The Dartington Experiment. Chapter 5 - Sacred Places. Communities of God. God without the State. The Cotswold Bruderhof. Salvation and Renewal. Chapter 6 - The Politics of Nowhere. Into the Margins. Eminently Practical Visions. Tales of the Chesterbelloc. Kindred Spirits. The Socialism of Small Groups. Chapter 7 - The Place of Imagination. The Land of Make Believe. The Fiction of Escape. The Devil's Decades. Intellectual Coteries. Chapter 8 - Twentieth-Century Conundrum.The Experience of Utopia. Comparative Perspectives. The Next Future. Bibliography. Index.

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