| Description |
ix, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Chloe Houston -- Rebuilding Solomon's temple: Richard Hakluyt's great instauration / David Harris Sacks -- Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The man in the moone: births of science-fiction 1593-1638 / William Poole -- Utopia, millenarianism, and the Baconian programme of Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Line Cottegnies -- 'The dream of Madagascar': English disasters and pirate utopias of the early modern Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald -- The uses of 'piracy': discourses of mercantilism and empire in Hakluyt's The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake / Claire Jowitt -- Palmares: utopian representations of a runaway settlement in colonial Brazil / Analisa DeGrave -- Utopia and education in the seventeenth century: Bacon's Salomon's House and its influence / Chloe Houston -- "Atlantick and Eutopian polities': utopianism, republicanism and constitutional design in the interregnum / Rosanna Cox -- Henry Neville's The isle of pines: from sexual utopia to political dystopia / Daniel Carey. |
| Subject |
Utopias in literature.
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Travel in literature.
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Utopias -- History.
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English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Houston, Chloe.
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| ISBN |
9780754666479 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0754666476 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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