LEADER 03797nam 22006375 450 001 9910255259803321 005 20251116191438.0 010 $a9783319622323 010 $a3319622323 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-62232-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000000587705 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-62232-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5042231 035 $a(Perlego)3496727 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000587705 100 $a20170908d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 $eEssays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality /$fby James Colin Davis 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (VIII, 246 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Utopianism,$x2946-448X 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9783319622316 311 08$aversion imprimée 3319622315 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined 'realities'. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which radical and utopian fictions appear to become imperative. In particular, it closely examines non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought; millennialism and utopianism as mutual critiques; form and substance in early modern utopianism/radicalism; Thomas More's utopian theatre of interests; and James Harrington and the political necessity of narrative fiction. This detailed analysis underpins observations about the longer term historical significance and meaning of both radicalism and utopianism. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Utopianism,$x2946-448X 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x1492- 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aIntellectual History 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aHistory of Early Modern Europe 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe 606 $aPolitical History 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x1492-. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 14$aIntellectual History. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aHistory of Early Modern Europe. 615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aPolitical History. 676 $a901 700 $aDavis$b J. C$g(J. Colin),$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01874857 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255259803321 996 $aAlternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700$94485647 997 $aUNINA