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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      04 April 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511483431
      9780521810821
      9780521009157
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483431
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 270 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    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.

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    Review of the hardback:'… thoughtful and scholarly study … Breadth of texts distinguishes Appelbaum's work from earlier scholars of utopia …'.

    Source: Literature & History

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