The Renaissance Utopia: Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society - Chloe Houston - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138255906 - November 11, 2016
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A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII?s reign to the Restoration, this book is the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis? Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981) to understand the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More?s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Where Davis concentrated on understanding utopias historically, Renaissance Utopia also seeks to make sense of utopia as a literary form, offering both a new typology of utopia and a new history of European humanist utopianism. This book examines how the utopia was transformed from an intellectual exercise in philosophical interrogation to a serious means of imagining practical social reform. In doing so it argues that the relationship between Renaissance utopia and Renaissance dialogue is crucial; the utopian mode of discourse continued to make use of aspects of dialogue even when the dialogue form itself was in decline. Exploring the ways in which utopian texts assimilated dialogue, Renaissance Utopia complements recent work by historians and literary scholars on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modelling a very particular community and literary mode - the utopia.

198 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 11, 2016
ISBN13 9781138255906
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 200
Dimensions 233 × 158 × 19 mm   ·   314 g
Language English  

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