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
| Title | 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 |
| Year for Search | 1813 |
| Authors | Owen, Robert(1771-1858) |
| Tertiary Authors | One of His Majesty’s Justices of Peace for the County of Lanark, [pseud.] |
| Date Published | 1813 |
| Publisher | Ptd. for Cadell and Davies, by Richard Taylor and Co. |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Male 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. |
