Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction. Utopias of One 1
4. PART I. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
5. Learning from Walden 17
6. W.E.B. Du Bois’s Hermeticism 33
7. PART II. THE SOVIET UNION
8. Osip and Nadezhda Mandel’shtam’s Utopian Anti - Utopianism 51
9. Anna Akhmatova’s Complicity 71
10. PART III. THE WORLD
11. Wallace Stevens’s Point of View 91
12. Reading Ezra Pound and J. H. Prynne in Chinese 109
13. Utopias of two 130
14. Acknowledgments 139
15. Note on Transliteration & Translation 141
16. Notes 143
17. Bibliography 179
18. Index 197