Nowhere in the Middle Ages / Karma Lochrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lochrie, Karma, author.

Series:

Middle Ages series

The middle ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.

More, Thomas.

Utopias in literature.

Utopias--History--To 1500.

Utopias.

Utopias--History.

History.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Civilization, Medieval.

Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Somewhere in the Middle Ages

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium

Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now

Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism

"Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball

Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored.

Notes:

Cover/spine title appears as Somewhere in the Middle Ages with "Somewhere" crossed out in red ink and "Nowhere" written above the crossed out word.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780812248111

0812248112

OCLC:

927401376