01787nam 2200349 n 450 99639149510331620200824120643.0(CKB)1000000000658653(EEBO)2248519392(UnM)99857123e(UnM)99857123(EXLCZ)99100000000065865319921124d1621 uh |engurbn||||a|bb|The XXIII Parliament of our most high and dread soueraine Iames by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland: defender of the faith; &c[electronic resource] Halden at Edinburgh, the 4. day of August 1621. by the noble and potent lord James Marquis of Hamilton ... Extracted foorth of the registers and the bookes of the Acts of Parliament of this kingdome of Scotland, by Sir George Hay, of Kinfawns, Knight: clerke of his Maiesties Counsell, register, and rollesEdinburgh Printed by Thomas Finlason, His Maiesties printer1621[2], 34 leaves port. (woodcut)Running title reads: King Iames the Sext. XXIII Parliament the 4 day of August, 1621.In this edition the title has "James by"; last page ends: The end of the XXiij. ..Identified as STC 21900a on microfilm.Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.eebo-0113Hay JohnSir,1578-1654.1002676Cu-RivESCu-RivESCStRLINWaOLNBOOK996391495103316The XXIII Parliament of our most high and dread soueraine Iames by the grace of God, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland: defender of the faith; &c2340896UNISA04253oam 2200841I 450 991079992110332120230126204743.01-136-72338-21-136-72339-01-283-15100-697866131510010-203-81661-710.4324/9780203816615 (CKB)2670000000094377(EBL)692370(OCoLC)730151696(SSID)ssj0000520870(PQKBManifestationID)12175869(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000520870(PQKBWorkID)10530196(PQKB)11655753(MiAaPQ)EBC692370(Au-PeEL)EBL692370(CaPaEBR)ebr10477557(CaONFJC)MIL315100(OCoLC)730501966(EXLCZ)99267000000009437720180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history /Peter SwirskiNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (266 p.)Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;15Description based upon print version of record.0-415-81687-4 0-415-89192-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: life is more important than art or social engineering, eutopia, and evolution -- How I stopped worrying and loved behavioural engineering, or communal life, adaptations, and B.F. Skinner's Walden two -- You're not in Canada until you can hear the loons crying, or voting, people's power, and Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- You'll never make a monkey out of me, or altruism, proverbial wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's grace -- We better kill the instinct to kill before it kills us, or violence, mind control, and Walker Percy's The Thanatos syndrome -- It can't happen here, or politics, emotions, and Philip Roth's The plot against America.The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with chronic and acute ahistoricism. America insist on ignoring the context of its present dilemmas. It insists on forgetting what preceded the headlines of today and on denying continuity with history. It insists, in short, on its exceptionalism.American Utopia and Social Engineering sets out to correct this amnesia. It misses no opportunity to flesh out both the historical premises and the politicRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;15.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPolitical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismUtopias in literatureSocial control in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureExceptionalismUnited StatesSocial engineeringUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Political fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Utopias in literature.Social control in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.ExceptionalismSocial engineeringHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryPolitics and literatureHistory813/.5409355Swirski Peter1963-,874151MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910799921103321American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history3877915UNINA