Utopias of One

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Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular--and thus exclusive and inimitable. Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers--Henry David Thoreau, W. E. B. Du Bois, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wa

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"[F]or those who are interested in attaining an expanded understanding of the political potential of Thoreau's writings, Utopias of One will be a welcome addition to the body of Thoreau scholarship"---David Faflik, Thoreau Society
"Truly global in perspective and local in detail . . . Kotins Utopias of One breaks a new path in conceiving a writers utopian position as a form of political resistance. . . . The book has great appeal for readers and researchers of utopian literature, and it could also have far-reaching impact on empire studies."---Feng Dong, Critical Inquiry
"Kotin offers many gripping insights. . . . For those interested in the trajectories that often profound disillusionment took, particularly through the medium of poetry, this is an engaging and provocative study."---Gregory Claeys, Modern Philology
"Joshua Kotins book offers a smart and sophisticated account of one mode of modern utopian thought and practice."---Jonathan Flatley, Slavic Review

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Joshua Kotin is assistant professor of English at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member in the university's Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.