A Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and America

by James Holstun

Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After arguing that early modern utopists, both literary and non-literary, attempt to reshape displaced populations, Holstun concentrates on two utopian projects of the mid-17th century: the political platforms and Algonquin "praying towns" of John Eliot in Massachusetts and the republican political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041410
• ISBN13: 9780195041415
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.6"