The Oxford handbook of Thomas More's Utopia / edited by Cathy Shrank and Phil Withington.

Format:

Book

Series:

Oxford handbooks online.

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

More, Thomas.

Utopias in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia

Thomas More's Utopia

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Thomas More's 'Utopia' is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This handbook offers three different ways of thinking about the book - in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies.

Contents:

Cover

The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations and Conventions

List of Contributors

Introduction to Thomas More's Utopia

Part One: Origins and Contexts

1. More and the Republics of Plato

2. Hythloday's Books: Utopia, Humanism, and the Republic of Letters

3. Nec minus salutaris quam festivus: Wit, Style, and the Body in More's Utopia

4. The Religions of the Utopians: Sin and Salvation in Thomas More's Utopia

5. 'Nothing is private anywhere': Utopia in the Context of More's Thought

6. Utopia and Travel Writing

7. Utopia's Empire: Thomas More's Text and the Early British Atlantic World, c.1510-​1625

8. The Urban Context for Utopia: The English Urban System, 1450-​1516

9. Utopia Unbound: The Fabrication of the First Latin Editions, 1516-​1519

Part Two: Translations and Editions, 1524-​1799

10. Ad fontes et ad futurum: A Survey of Latin Utopias

11. From Prototype to Genre: Translations and Imitations of Utopia in Early Modern Germany (1524-​1753)

12. Receiving More: Utopia in Spain and New Spain

13. Utopia in Sixteenth-​Century Italy

14. Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France

15. Utopia in Tudor London: Ralph Robinson's Translations and Their Civic, Personal, and Political Contexts

16. Dialogue, Debate, and Orality in Ralph Robinson's Utopias

17. 'Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland': Frans van Hoogstraten's Translation of Utopia (1677)

18. Utopia and Gilbert Burnet in 1684

19. From Humanism to Enlightenment: Nicolas Gueudeville and His Translation of Thomas More's Utopia

20. Thomas Rousseau, Translator of an Enlightened Utopia

Part Three: Translations and Editions after 1800

21. False Friends (and Their Uses): Thomas More's Utopia Among the Victorians.

22. The Cultural Politics of Translation: Translating Thomas More's Utopia into German in the Late Nineteenth Century

23. Not Just a Light-​Hearted Joke: Russian Moreana from the Age of Karamzin to the Rise of Social Democracy and Lenin's 'Stele of Freedom'

24. Utopia in East Central Europe: The Hungarian Scene

25. A Catalan in Search of Humanists: Josep Pin i Soler's Translation of More's Utopia (1912)

26. The Historical Fallacy: Utopia and the Problem of Fiction in Weimar Germany

27. Japanese Translations of More's Utopia

28. The Multiple Lives of Utopia in Modern China

29. Utopia and Utopian Writing in Arabic

Part Four: Beyond Utopia

30. Early Modern Utopian Fiction: Utopia and The Isle of Pines

31. Of Survival and Living Together: The Eighteenth-​Century Utopian Novel

32. Conversation, Formation, and Forms of Utopia in Fin-​de-​Siècle Socialist Journals

33. Utopia, the Imperial Settler Utopia, and Imperial Settler Science Fiction

34. Away from the Ancestral Home: Utopia and Philosophy in Bloch and Beyond

35. Human Rights and/​in Utopia?

36. Utopia and Moral Economy

37. Utopia and Architecture

38. Mapping Utopia

39. Contemporary Utopianism: An Island Renaissance

Appendix: Outline of More's Utopia

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 3, 2023).

ISBN:

9780198881032

0198881037

9780191990502

0191990507

9780198881025

0198881029

OCLC:

1409661566