03790nam 22006375 450 991025525980332120240322053915.09783319622323331962232310.1007/978-3-319-62232-3(CKB)4100000000587705(DE-He213)978-3-319-62232-3(MiAaPQ)EBC5042231(Perlego)3496727(EXLCZ)99410000000058770520170908d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality /by James Colin Davis1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (VIII, 246 p.)Palgrave Studies in Utopianism,2946-448XIncludes index.9783319622316 version imprimée 3319622315 1. Introduction -- 2. Radicalism in a traditional society: The valuation of radical thought in the English Commonwealth, 1649-1660 -- 3. Afterword: Reassessing radicalism in a traditional society: two questions -- 4. Conquering the Conquest: the limits of non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought' -- 5. Formal Utopia/Informal Millennium: the struggle between form and substance as a context for seventeenth-century utopianism -- 6. Against Formality: one aspect of the English Revolution -- 7. Religion and the struggle for freedom in the English Revolution -- 8. Thomas More's Utopia: sources, legacy and interpretation -- 9. Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More's Utopian conclusion -- 10. James Harrington's utopian radicalism and the narration of an alternative world -- 11. Conclusion.This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined 'realities'. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which radical and utopian fictions appear to become imperative. In particular, it closely examines non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought; millennialism and utopianism as mutual critiques; form and substance in early modern utopianism/radicalism; Thomas More's utopian theatre of interests; and James Harrington and the political necessity of narrative fiction. This detailed analysis underpins observations about the longer term historical significance and meaning of both radicalism and utopianism.Palgrave Studies in Utopianism,2946-448XIntellectual lifeHistoryGreat BritainHistoryEuropeHistory1492-World politicsIntellectual HistoryHistory of Britain and IrelandHistory of Early Modern EuropeHistory of Modern EuropePolitical HistoryIntellectual lifeHistory.Great BritainHistory.EuropeHistory1492-.World politics.Intellectual History.History of Britain and Ireland.History of Early Modern Europe.History of Modern Europe.Political History.901Davis James Colinauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut153708BOOK9910255259803321Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-17002138007UNINA