Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521810825
ISBN-13
9780521810821
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 4th, 2002
Print length
270 Pages
Weight
520 grams
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22.90 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
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Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics was engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. This study will interest political and cultural historians, literary critics and social theorists.
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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