Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England / Robert Appelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appelbaum, Robert, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

Utopias in literature.

Utopias--Great Britain.

Utopias.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.

Great Britain.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Literature & Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as the world in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here and now, proposing how England or its nascent colonies could be conceived of as an 'Oceana,' or a New Jerusalem. This book provides a comprehensive view of the operations of the utopian imagination in literature from 1603 to the 1660s. Appealing to social theorists, literary critics, and political and cultural historians, this volume revises prevailing notions of the languages of hope and social dreaming in the making of British modernity during a century of political and intellectual upheaval.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The look of power

2. Utopian experimentalism, 1620-1638

3. "Reformation" and "desolation" : the new horizons of the 1640s

4. Out of the "true nothing", 1649-1653

5. From constitutionalism to aestheticization, 1654-1670

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12519-7

0-521-00915-4

9786610159581

1-280-15958-8

0-511-12013-3

0-511-15704-5

0-511-30434-X

0-511-48343-0

0-511-04506-9

OCLC:

171123300