Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Towards a Theory of Utopian Sociability
1 Redefining Utopianism for a Post- consumer society
2 The Mythical Background: remembering original equality
3 Theories of Realised Utopianism
Part II Utopian Sociability in Fiction and Practice
4 The Varieties of Utopian Practice
5 Luxury, Sociability, and Progress in Literary Projections of Utopia: from Thomas more to the eighteenth century
6 The Triumph of Unsocial Sociability? luxury in the eighteenth century
Part III Luxury and Sociability in Later Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Utopianism
7 The Later Eighteenth Century and the French Revolution
8 Simplicity and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Utopianism
Part IV Modern Consumerism and Its Opponents
9 Twentieth-Century Consumerism and the Utopian Response
10 Counterculture and Consumerism: The 1960s
11 Life after Consumerism: Utopianism in the age of sufficiency
Conclusion: The Great Change: creating enhanced simplicity
Afterword: Covid-19 and Sociability
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
A NOTE ON THE TYPE