The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

by Rosalind Williams

Book Overview

In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis , Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe island was not an empire in the usual sense, marked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226899551
• ISBN13: 9780226899558
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"