04088nam 22006015 450 991025525980332120231124120904.03-319-62232-310.1007/978-3-319-62232-3(CKB)4100000000587705(DE-He213)978-3-319-62232-3(MiAaPQ)EBC5042231(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 UtopianismIncludes index.version imprimée 3-319-62231-5 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 UtopianismIntellectual life—HistoryGreat Britain—HistoryEurope—History—1492-World politicsIntellectual Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/729000History of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020History of Early Modern Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717030History of Modern Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080Political Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080Intellectual life—History.Great Britain—History.Europe—History—1492-.World politics.Intellectual Studies.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