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• Title:
  Distance and Isolation. The Role of Australia in Wojciech Gutkowski’s Colonial Dream in Journey to Kalopeia
• Creator:
  Łukowska, Maria
• Contributor:
  University of Lodz, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Department of British and Commonwealth Studies;
  maria.lukowska@uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  This contribution is an attempt at a different reading of Wojciech Gutkowski’s Journey to Kalopeia (1817), which may be of interest to both Polish and Australian readers in the twenty-first century, since it tries to connect Polish history with the dream of the Antipodes represented by Australia. Gutkowski’s book, unknown until 1913, when it was deemed a utopian novel of little scientific value, gained recognition in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. At that time it was studied as a political treatise and an Enlightenment model for the creation of an ideal utopian-socialist-communist state. This paper offers a new reading of the work in question, discussing its cultural-historical aspects as a precursor of a specifically Polish model of a utopian-colonial state.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2022.04.25;
  2022.01.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal;2;
  26
• Subject:
  Wojciech Gutkowski;
  Journey to Kalopeia;
  Australia;
  Utopia;
  utopian socialism;
  utopian-colonial treatise
• Identifier:
  1641-4233;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41682 ;
  2300-8695;
  10.18778/1641-4233.26.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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