Mark A Allison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Allison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Allison |
| SIGNATURE | ALLISON M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9508-5419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Everyday Utopia
Kristen R. Ghodsee has written a wide-ranging, highly readable, and commendably radical vindication of utopian thought and experimentation. Everyday Utopia is aimed at the educated lay reader—itself, perhaps, a utopian projection—rather than specialists. Nevertheless, all but the most erudite and cosmopolitan of scholars will encounter unfamiliar and compelling utopiana within its pages. While her earlier book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Soc…
Socialism
Anglo-American socialism has reached a curious impasse. Levels of economic inequality not seen since the nineteenth century would lead one to anticipate an upsurge in socialist affiliation and activism. Nevertheless, socialism has stagnated as a political force. This essay argues that, as a collectivist ideology, socialism demands a degree of communal identification that modern individuals find uncomfortable, even threatening, to the integrity of…
The French Revolution Now; or, Carlyle's Eternal Return
This essay utilizes the publication of the first scholarly edition of The French Revolution: A History (1837) as an occasion to reassess this thoroughgoingly radical—and puzzlingly neglected—masterpiece. It explores how Thomas Carlyle's maverick conceptions of sympathy and affect, the relationship of the individual and the collective, and narrative itself underlie the audacious stylistic innovations that characterize this singular text. Moreover,…
Carlyle’s “Phallus-worship”
In this hitherto unpublished manuscript essay (c. 1848), Thomas Carlyle uses ancient Dionysian ritual as a symbol for a complex of contemporaneous social tendencies that he deplores. Foremost among these tendencies is the displacement of piety and duty by the exaltation of sensualism and romantic love, which Carlyle associates with revolutionary France, George Sand and her epigones, and circulating-library fiction more generally. “Phallus-worship…
Imagining Socialism
“Socialism” names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby locates an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing, thought, and practice of the long nineteenth century. Imagining Socialism explores this tradition of radical activism, investigating the diverse ways that British socialists from Ro…
Robert Owen's Experiment at New Lanark
In a striking formulation, Ophélie Siméon describes her study as “an intellectual biography through a sense of place” (9). The subject of the intellectual biography is Robert Owen (1771–1858), the enlightened manufacturer turned universal reformer—and the father of British socialism. The place is the New Lanark Mills, the idyllic Clydeside factory village Owen superintended from 1800 to 1825. Owen's spectacular entrepreneurial and humanitarian su…
Building a Bridge to Nowhere
Is a utopian text best understood as a blueprint for building a better society or as a catalyst for educating the desire of its readers? Since Miguel Abensour's interpretation of News from Nowhere, scholars have favored the latter view. This article contends, however, that the “catalytic” approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. When William Morris composed Nowhere, he was confronting a practical manifestation of the …
Karl Marx
The Making of British Socialism and Karl Marx
Germany and Austria, 1814-2000
Building a Bridge to Nowhere
Is a utopian text best understood as a blueprint for building a better society or as a catalyst for educating the desire of its readers? Since Miguel Abensour's interpretation of News from Nowhere, scholars have favored the latter view. This article contends, however, that the “catalytic” approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. When William Morris composed Nowhere, he was confronting a practical manifestation of the …
Karl Marx
Germany and Austria, 1814-2000
The Making of British Socialism and Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Robert Owen's Experiment at New Lanark
In a striking formulation, Ophélie Siméon describes her study as “an intellectual biography through a sense of place” (9). The subject of the intellectual biography is Robert Owen (1771–1858), the enlightened manufacturer turned universal reformer—and the father of British socialism. The place is the New Lanark Mills, the idyllic Clydeside factory village Owen superintended from 1800 to 1825. Owen's spectacular entrepreneurial and humanitarian su…
Building a Bridge to Nowhere
Is a utopian text best understood as a blueprint for building a better society or as a catalyst for educating the desire of its readers? Since Miguel Abensour's interpretation of News from Nowhere, scholars have favored the latter view. This article contends, however, that the “catalytic” approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. When William Morris composed Nowhere, he was confronting a practical manifestation of the …
Carlyle’s “Phallus-worship”
In this hitherto unpublished manuscript essay (c. 1848), Thomas Carlyle uses ancient Dionysian ritual as a symbol for a complex of contemporaneous social tendencies that he deplores. Foremost among these tendencies is the displacement of piety and duty by the exaltation of sensualism and romantic love, which Carlyle associates with revolutionary France, George Sand and her epigones, and circulating-library fiction more generally. “Phallus-worship…
Imagining Socialism
“Socialism” names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby locates an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing, thought, and practice of the long nineteenth century. Imagining Socialism explores this tradition of radical activism, investigating the diverse ways that British socialists from Ro…
The French Revolution Now; or, Carlyle's Eternal Return
This essay utilizes the publication of the first scholarly edition of The French Revolution: A History (1837) as an occasion to reassess this thoroughgoingly radical—and puzzlingly neglected—masterpiece. It explores how Thomas Carlyle's maverick conceptions of sympathy and affect, the relationship of the individual and the collective, and narrative itself underlie the audacious stylistic innovations that characterize this singular text. Moreover,…
Socialism
Anglo-American socialism has reached a curious impasse. Levels of economic inequality not seen since the nineteenth century would lead one to anticipate an upsurge in socialist affiliation and activism. Nevertheless, socialism has stagnated as a political force. This essay argues that, as a collectivist ideology, socialism demands a degree of communal identification that modern individuals find uncomfortable, even threatening, to the integrity of…
Everyday Utopia
Kristen R. Ghodsee has written a wide-ranging, highly readable, and commendably radical vindication of utopian thought and experimentation. Everyday Utopia is aimed at the educated lay reader—itself, perhaps, a utopian projection—rather than specialists. Nevertheless, all but the most erudite and cosmopolitan of scholars will encounter unfamiliar and compelling utopiana within its pages. While her earlier book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Soc…
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