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A Comparison of Morris' News from Nowhere and Life in the Twin Oaks Community

It is the purpose of this paper to explore how Morris' novel relates to life in Twin Oaks, primarily as depicted in two books: Living the Dream (1983) by Ingrid Komar, a long-term visitor to the commune and Kinkade's Is It Utopia Yet? (1996). This comparison will demonstrate that the experiences of contemporary intentional communities such as Twin Oaks provide a meaningful context for reading News from Nowhere because of the similarities in goals and philosophy. It will further demonstrate that though Twin Oaks was originally inspired by a utopian novel much more in the tradition of Bellamy's work than Morris', the community's subsequent evolution has brought it much closer in philosophy to News from Nowhere than Looking Backward.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc5179
Date12 1900
CreatorsGarner, Royce Clifton
ContributorsHoldeman, David, Peters, John G., Simpkins, Scott, 1958-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Garner, Royce Clifton, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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