Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

by Robert Appelbaum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521009154
• ISBN13: 9780521009157
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"