03104nam 2200637Ia 450 991082171220332120200520144314.01-107-12519-70-521-00915-497866101595811-280-15958-80-511-12013-30-511-15704-50-511-30434-X0-511-48343-00-511-04506-9(CKB)111087027190974(EBL)202301(OCoLC)171123300(MiAaPQ)EBC202301(UkCbUP)CR9780511483431(EXLCZ)9911108702719097420020530d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLiterature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England /Robert Appelbaum1st ed.Oxford ;New York Cambridge University Press20021 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 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryUtopias in literatureUtopiasGreat BritainPolitics and government1603-1714English literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryUtopias in literature.Utopias.820.9/358Appelbaum Robert1952-1627583MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821712203321Literature and utopian politics in seventeenth-century England3975459UNINA