Utopias Of The British Enlightenment
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Utopias Of The British Enlightenment
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Author : Gregory Claeys
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-07-07
Utopias Of The British Enlightenment written by Gregory Claeys and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-07 with History categories.
A major collection of tracts from the British utopian tradition.
The Cambridge Companion To Utopian Literature
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Author : Gregory Claeys
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-05
The Cambridge Companion To Utopian Literature written by Gregory Claeys and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with History categories.
Using a combination of historical and thematic approaches, this volume engages with the fascinating and complex genre of utopian literature.
Gender And Utopia In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Brenda Tooley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Gender And Utopia In The Eighteenth Century written by Brenda Tooley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on eighteenth-century constructions of symbolic femininity and eighteenth-century women's writing in relation to contemporary utopian discourse, this volume adjusts our understanding of the utopia of the Enlightenment, placing a unique emphasis on colonial utopias. These essays reflect on issues related to specific configurations of utopias and utopianism by considering in detail English and French texts by both women (Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding, Isabelle de Charrière) and men (Paltock and Montesquieu). The contributors ask the following questions: In the influential discourses of eighteenth-century utopian writing, is there a place for 'woman,' and if so, what (or where) is it? How do 'women' disrupt, confirm, or ground the utopian projects within which these constructs occur? By posing questions about the inscription of gender in the context of eighteenth-century utopian writing, the contributors shed new light on the eighteenth-century legacies that continue to shape contemporary views of social and political progress.
Women S Utopias Of The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Alessa Johns
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2003
Women S Utopias Of The Eighteenth Century written by Alessa Johns and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
No human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform-oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their reservations about, ideal societies. In Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century, Alessa Johns examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, uncovering the ways in which they resembled--and departed from--traditional utopias. Johns demonstrates that while traditional visions tended to look back to absolutist models, women's utopias quickly incorporated emerging liberal ideas that allowed far more room for personal initiative and gave agency to groups that were not culturally dominant, such as the female writers themselves. Women's utopias, Johns argues, were reproductive in nature. They had the potential to reimagine and perpetuate themselves.
Restoration And Augustan British Utopia
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Author : Gregory Claeys
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-01
Restoration And Augustan British Utopia written by Gregory Claeys and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This rich and diverse collection of late seventeenth-century British Utopian texts is made up of rarer pieces-many of which have never before been published—from this period (1660 until the French Revolution). Until now, most anthologies have focused on works such as Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Gregory Claeys provides tangible evidence of a rich variety of utopian texts from the Restoration until the turn of the century. The topics of these works are wide-ranging and include alchemy and natural science, imaginary voyages, some Arcadian, some utopian, descriptions of model societies, both Christian and classical and plans for working communities that proposed how to solve the problem of poverty and bring harmony to the poor.
Utopia And Reform In The Enlightenment
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Author : Franco Venturi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1970
Utopia And Reform In The Enlightenment written by Franco Venturi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with History categories.
A detailed study of the republican tradition in the development of the Enlightenment.
A Rational Millennium
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Author : James Holstun
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1987
A Rational Millennium written by James Holstun and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Business & Economics categories.
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 writing of James Harrington in Protectorate England. Moving between these projects and modern analyses of rationalization, he shows that Puritan utopia shares the modern Western longing for universal social discipline and that it envisions this discipline as the rational means to the Millennium.
Narrating Friendship And The British Novel 1760 1830
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Author : Katrin Berndt
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-10-14
Narrating Friendship And The British Novel 1760 1830 written by Katrin Berndt and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot, character formation, and style in the British novel from the 1760s to the 1830s, Katrin Berndt argues that friendship functions as a literary expression of philosophical values in a genre that explores the psychology and the interactions of the individual in modern society. In the literary historical period in which the novel became established as a modern genre, friend characters were omnipresent, reflecting enlightenment philosophy’s definition of friendship as a bond that civilized public and private interactions and was considered essential for the attainment of happiness. Berndt’s analyses of genre-defining novels by Frances Brooke, Mary Shelley, Sarah Scott, Helen Maria Williams, Charlotte Lennox, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth show that the significance of friendship and the increasing variety of novelistic forms and topics represent an overlooked dynamic in the novel’s literary history. Contributing to our understanding of the complex interplay of philosophical, socio-cultural and literary discourses that shaped British fiction in the later Hanoverian decades, Berndt’s book demonstrates that novels have conceived the modern individual not in opposition to, but in interaction with society, continuing Enlightenment debates about how to share the lives and the experiences of others.
Utopia
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Author : SIR THOMAS MORE (SAINT.)
language : en
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Release Date : 2018-04-20
Utopia written by SIR THOMAS MORE (SAINT.) and has been published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-20 with categories.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T050640 Dublin: printed by R. Reilly, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, 1737. xxviii,140p.; 12°
Literature And Utopian Politics In Seventeenth Century England
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Author : Robert Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-04
Literature And Utopian Politics In Seventeenth Century England written by Robert Appelbaum and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 of the operations of the utopian imagination in literature from 1603 to the 1660s. Appealing to social theorists, literary critics, and political and cultural historians, this volume revises prevailing notions of the languages of hope and social dreaming in the making of British modernity during a century of political and intellectual upheaval.