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Review: Irene Cheng, The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023) 349pp. ISBN 978-30-343- 0772-7, $35.00.

Review

Kelsey Paige Mason (Ohio State University)

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2517-7850

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171 - 177

Date of Publication:

January 2025

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Kelsey Paige Mason (Ohio State University)

Paige is a currently a Senior Lecturer at The Ohio State University. She has published and is currently working on publications in the fields of game studies, utopian studies, Victorian literature, and life writing. Her dissertation, ‘Nineteenth-Century Nowhere: Mapping Utopian and Dystopian Rhetoric in Literature and Life Writing’, is an interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century British and American utopian fiction and intentional communities. In her dissertation, Paige theorises the concept of utopian and dystopian rhetoric and applies her analysis to eugenics and utopianism in the nineteenth century.

University of Southampton, UK

SO17 1BJ

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