A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice

TitleA New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice
Year for Search1813
AuthorsOwen, Robert(1771-1858)
Tertiary AuthorsOne of His Majesty’s Justices of Peace for the County of Lanark, [pseud.]
Date Published1813
PublisherPtd. for Cadell and Davies, by Richard Taylor and Co.
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsMale author, Scottish author, Welsh author
Annotation

Not strictly a utopia but basic to the development of British and American utopianism. Owen was a prolific and repetitive author who wrote many proposals for communities with detailed constitutions and rules and regulations. He also founded or inspired communities in both the U.K. and the U.S. This book outlines his basic, and generally unchanged, principles. See also 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen for more explicitly utopian works.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. 4 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: William Pickering, 1993), 1: 23-100. See Claeys (25) for the early publishing history.

Info Notes

See also 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen for more explicitly utopian works.

Pseudonym

By One of His Majesty's Justices of Peace for the County of Lanark [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

DLC, HRC

Author Note

Owen (1771-1858) was born in Wales and his first major experiment was at New Lanark, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Full Text

1813 [Owen, Robert] (1771-1858). A New View of Society; or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice. By One of His Majesty’s Justices of Peace for the County of Lanark [pseud.]. London: Ptd. for Cadell and Davies, by Richard Taylor and Co. Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. 4 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: William Pickering, 1993), 1: 23-100. See Claeys (25) for the early publishing history. DLC, HRC

Not strictly a utopia but basic to the development of British and American utopianism. Owen was a prolific and repetitive author who wrote many proposals for communities with detailed constitutions and rules and regulations. He also founded or inspired communities in both the U.K. and the U.S. This book outlines his basic, and generally unchanged, principles. See also 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen for more explicitly utopian works. Owen was born in Wales and his first major experiment was at New Lanark, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.