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Author | : Sten Bodvar Liljegren |
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Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : S. B. Liljegren |
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Release | : 1978-08-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780849532399 |
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Author | : Sten Bodvar Liljegren |
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Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Jason H. Pearl |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813936241 |
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Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have assessed the emerging novel’s realism and in particular the genre’s awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry in Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel, arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography. Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and it is now common to imagine them in the future, rather than on some undiscovered island or continent. At precisely the time when novels began turning from the fabulous settings of romance to the actual locations described in contemporaneous travel accounts, a number of writers nevertheless tried to preserve and reconfigure utopia by giving it new coordinates and parameters. Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and others told of adventurous voyages and extraordinary worlds. They engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia. If these writers ultimately concede that utopian geographies were nowhere to be found, they also reimagine the essential ideals as new forms of interiority and sociability that could be brought back to England. Questions about geography and utopia drove many of the formal innovations of the early novel. As this book shows, what resulted were new ways of representing both world geography and utopian possibility.
Author | : Marina Leslie |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801434006 |
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Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts--Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World--as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. Rather than approach utopia by mapping out a fixed set of formal features, or by tracing the development of the genre, Leslie elaborates a history of utopia as critical practice. Moreover, by taking every reading of utopia to be as historically symptomatic as the literary production it assesses, her book integrates readings of these three English Renaissance utopias with an analysis of the history and politics of reading utopia. Throughout, Leslie considers utopia as a fictional enactment of historical process and method. In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.
Author | : Artur Blaim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : George Watson |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 1296 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Gregory Claeys |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780815628248 |
Download Restoration and Augustan British Utopia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This rich and diverse collection of late seventeenth-century British Utopian texts is made up of rarer pieces-many of which have never before been published—from this period (1660 until the French Revolution). Until now, most anthologies have focused on works such as Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Gregory Claeys provides tangible evidence of a rich variety of utopian texts from the Restoration until the turn of the century. The topics of these works are wide-ranging and include alchemy and natural science, imaginary voyages, some Arcadian, some utopian, descriptions of model societies, both Christian and classical and plans for working communities that proposed how to solve the problem of poverty and bring harmony to the poor.
Author | : Thomas More |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2023-12-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.