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Utopianism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland /
The utopian propensity, the impulse to a better world, is found throughout human culture. However, its expression is necessarily historically and culturally variable. Utopianism in Ireland has an extensive and varied pre-history to be found in travellers' tales, the oral tradition of the Celtic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Select chronology of key late seventeenth-century and eighteenth and nineteenth-century works of Irish Utopian literature and thought
- 1. Introduction : the utopian propensity
- 2. Utopian geographies
- 3. Improving visions : the early philosophical societies and the Dublin Society
- 4. George Berkeley's new world utopia and the pacific utopia in the writings of Theobald Wolfe tone
- 5. ‘To the limits of the lunar world' : extraterrestrial voyages and utopia
- 6. Dark caverns : Samuel Madden's futurism
- 7. Conclusion : some vague utopia.