New worlds reflected : travel and utopia in the early modern period / edited by Chloë Houston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houston, Chloë

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias in literature.

Travel in literature.

Utopias--History.

Utopias.

History.

English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Science fiction, English--History and criticism.

Science fiction, English.

Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, English.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction / Chloë Houston

Rebuilding Solomon's temple: Richard Hakluyt's great instauration / David Harris Sacks

Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The man in the moone: births of science-fiction 1593-1638 / William Poole

Utopia, millenarianism, and the Baconian programme of Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Line Cottegnies

'The dream of Madagascar': English disasters and pirate utopias of the early modern Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald

The uses of 'piracy': discourses of mercantilism and empire in Hakluyt's The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake / Claire Jowitt

Palmares: utopian representations of a runaway settlement in colonial Brazil / Analisa DeGrave

Utopia and education in the seventeenth century: Bacon's Salomon's House and its influence / Chloë Houston

"Atlantick and Eutopian polities': utopianism, republicanism and constitutional design in the interregnum / Rosanna Cox

Henry Neville's The isle of pines: from sexual utopia to political dystopia / Daniel Carey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0754666476

9780754666479

OCLC:

641212970

Publisher Number:

99948984794