03163nam 22006252 450 991078025050332120220722213656.01-107-12519-70-521-00915-497866101595811-280-15958-80-511-12013-30-511-15704-50-511-30434-X0-511-48343-00-511-04506-9(CKB)111087027190974(EBL)202301(OCoLC)171123300(MiAaPQ)EBC202301(UkCbUP)CR9780511483431(EXLCZ)9911108702719097420090224d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiterature and utopian politics in seventeenth-century England /Robert Appelbaum[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-511-01901-7 0-521-81082-5 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.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.Literature & Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century EnglandEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryUtopias in literatureUtopiasGreat BritainGreat BritainPolitics and government1603-1714EnglandIntellectual life17th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryUtopias in literature.Utopias820.9/358Appelbaum Robert1952-1473837UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910780250503321Literature and utopian politics in seventeenth-century England3687163UNINA