Utopian moments : reading utopian texts / / edited by Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés and J.C. Davis

• Pubblicazione: [London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2012]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 174 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809.93372
• Soggetto topico: Utopias in literature; Utopias
• Persona (resp. second.): DavisJ. C.; Ramiro AvilésMiguel Ángel
• Note generali: Made available via Bloomsbury Open Archive.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / J.C. Davis and Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés -- Chapter 1. Systemic Remedies for Systemic Ills : The Political Thought of More's Utopia / George M. Logan -- Capter 2. More's Utopia : Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency / Susan Bruce -- Chapter 3. Goodbye to Utopia : Thomas More's Utopian Conclusion / J.C. Davis -- Chapter 4. So Close, So Far : The Puzzle of Antangil / Nadia Minerva -- Chapter 5. Microcosm, Macrocosm and 'Practical Science' in Andreae's Christianopolis / Edward Thompson -- Chapter 6. Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun and the Protective Celestial Bodies / Maurizio Cambi -- Chapter 7. 'A Dark Light' : Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis / Bronwen Price -- Chapter 8. Gerrard Winstanley's The Law Of Freedom : Context and Continuity / John Gurney -- Chapter 9. 'De Te Fabula Narratur' : Oceana and James Harrington's Narrative Constitutionalism / J.C. Davis -- Chapter 10. An Island with Potential : Henry Neville's The Isle Of Pines / Gaby Mahlberg -- Chapter 11. The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras's History of the Sevarambians / Cyrus Masroori and John Christian Laursen -- Chapter 12. Nature and Utopia in Morelly's Code De La Nature / Claudio De Boni -- Chapter 13. Sinapia, A Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain / Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés -- Chapter 14. Condorcet's Utopianism : Faith in Science and Reason / K. Steven Vincent -- Chapter 15. Women's Rights and Women's Liberation in Charles Fourier's Early Writings / Jonathan Beecher -- Chapter 16. A Tale of Two Cities : Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 1815-17 / Gregory Claeys -- Chapter 17. How to Change the World : Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon / Neil McWilliam -- Chapter 18. The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria / David Leopold -- Chapter 19. The Horror of Strangeness : Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward / Matthew Beaumont -- Chapter 20. 'The Incompatibility I Could Not Resolve' : Ambivalence in H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia / Richard Nate -- Chapter 21. Utopian Journeying : Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed / Laurence Davis and Peter G. Stillman -- Conclusion / Lyman Tower Sargent -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Within literature, history, politics, philosophy and theology, the interpretation of utopian ideals has evolved constantly. Juxtaposing historical views on utopian diagnoses, prescriptions and on the character and value of utopian thought with more modern interpretations, this volume explores how our ideal utopia has transformed over time. Challenging long-held interpretations, the contributors turn a fresh eye to canonical texts, and open them up to a twenty-first century audience. From Moore's Utopia to Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Utopian Moments puts forward a lively and accessible debate on the nature and significance of utopian thought and tradition. Each essay focuses on a key passage from the selected work using it to encourage both the specialist and the reader new to the field to read afresh. Written by an international team of leading scholars, the essays range from the sixteenth century to the present day and are designed to be both stimulating and accessible."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Utopian moments
• ISBN: 1-84966-684-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996198799603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno