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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 rel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501745263 1501745263 |