Michael Robertson. The Last Utopians. Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and their Legacy

Abstract

Michael Robertson’s book is definitely a good read. In The Last Utopians, Robertson focuses on four writers who between 1825 and 1915 developed an interest in utopian schemes and social experimentation in Great Britain and the United States. Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), William Morris (1834–1896), Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) were all democratic socialists, believing in an egalitarian alternative to industrial capitalism and in women’s independence; imp...