Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History / / Marina Leslie.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 6 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Praxis Makes Perfect: Utopia and Theory
- Chapter Two. Mapping Out History in More's Utopia
- Chapter Three. Utopia Spelled Out
- Chapter Four. The New Atlantis: Bacon's History of the New Science
- Chapter Five. Revisiting Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index