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.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Garner, Royce Clifton

Contributors dc:contributor

• Holdeman, David
• Peters, John G.
• Simpkins, Scott, 1958-

• utopia
• Twin Oaks
• commune
• intentional community
• Morris, William, 1834-1896. News from nowhere.
• Komar, Ingrid. Living the dream.
• Kinkade, Kathleen. Is it utopia yet?
• Twin Oaks Community.

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• Public
• Copyright
• Garner, Royce Clifton
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

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