The renaissance Utopia: dialogue, travel and the ideal society
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 38437
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Ashgate
- ISBN
- 9781472425041
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 199pp. book deploys an extensive span of contemporary sources to understand the societies projected by utopian literature, from More's 'Utopia' (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines contextually and generically how the utopia was transformed from a philosophical and political exercise to a serious means of imagining practical social reform though dialogue, and use of travel narrative forms. Product of 6 years’ research, the book threads complex nuances of utopian literature from the 16th-17th centuries into a tapestry of detailed scholarship to establish the interconnections between Civil War utopias and their antecedents.
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- Non-English
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