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Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History
Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts-Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World-as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relatio...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Defining Nowhere and Other Utopian Projects; Nowhere in History; 1 Praxis Makes Perfect: Utopia and Theory; 2 Mapping Out History in More's Utopia; Method and Reform; Figuring Out Utopia; Mapping Out Utopia; From Utopia to History and Back; 3 Utopia Spelled Out; Inscribing Utopia; Eutopia/Heterotopia; European Authority and Utopian Counterfeits; 4 The New Atlantis: Bacon's History of the New Science; Bacon and the Fables of History
- Visions of Empire and the Politics of PraiseThe "Virgin of the World": The Poetics of History and the Art of Nature; Rereading the New Atlantis; 5 Revisiting Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World; Women on Top of the Blazing World; Diagnosing Utopia; "The Whole Story of This Lady Is a Romance"; Nature and the Anatomy of Utopia; Origins and Originality: (Self- )Invention and Utopia; Notes; Bibliography; Index