The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy

Four figures — Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman — were writers who argued for things such as socialism and women’s rights in their utopian fiction of the 19th century. The Last Utopians (Princeton University Press) is a biography of all four writers that argues for the continuing influence of their ideas today in movements like Occupy Wall Street.