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UNINA9910959735603321 |
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Autore |
Appelbaum Robert <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England / / Robert Appelbaum |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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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 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Utopias in literature |
Utopias - Great Britain |
Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714 |
England Intellectual life 17th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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