Abstract

This Festschrift is in honor of Lyman Tower Sargent, the founder of this journal and the foremost bibliographer of and scholar on utopias and utopianism. Festschriften are curious beasts, honoring scholars and writers at different points of their careers. Though Sargent only recently celebrated his eightieth birthday, all of us who know him well recognize that he will continue writing, thinking, and breathing utopias and utopianism. But more so, as some of the personal reflections echo, Sargent has been and is unique in his nurturing of young scholars and practitioners—nurturing in terms of scholarship, advice and criticism, regular e-mail missives with new reading, and also the occasional rich...