caa a22 4500 38636611X CHVBK 20180307111934.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800004059 doi S0021875800004059 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800004059 Roper Jon Dr. Jon Roper is lecturer in American Studies at the University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales. Utopianism, Scientific and Socialistic: Albert Chavannes and "Socioland” [Elektronische Daten] [Jon Roper] Albert Chavannes is not a name that is mentioned often in intellectual histories of the United States in the late nineteenth century. Few nowadays are familiar with the work of this émigré farmer and businessman who lived for most of his life in Knoxville, Tennessee. Yet his achievement was impressive. Between 1883 and 1885 he edited and published The Sociologist, which was possibly the first monthly journal of its kind in the U.S.A. Inspired by Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward (1888), and the nationalist movement which resulted from it, he also wrote utopian fiction in two books, The Future Commonwealth (1892) and its sequel In Brighter Climes (1895). In the first of these novels Chavannes synthesized Darwinian theories of evolution and secular notions of progress to suggest that scientific sociological inquiry could aid rational planning in the cause of perfecting society. In the sequel, he built a firmer bridge from this dynamic sociology to a form of naive Marxism. Chavannes's work thus colours with European ideas and influences that distinctive American utopian tradition which retains a nostalgic faith in the realization of Jefferson's millennial democratic vision. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-12), 407-421 0021-8758 23:3<407 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800004059 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800004059 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Roper Jon Dr. Jon Roper is lecturer in American Studies at the University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, Wales NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/3(1989-12), 407-421 0021-8758 23:3<407 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge