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Three Early Modern Utopias - Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville

Three Early Modern Utopias

Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2008
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-953799-0 (ISBN)
CHF 13,90 inkl. MwSt
A unique edition of three early modern utopian texts, using a contemporary translation of More's Utopia and examining the Renaissance world view as shown by these writers. The edition includes the illustrative material that accompanied early editions of Utopia, full chronologies of the authors, notes, and glossary.
Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia.

Utopia was only one of many early modern treatments of other worlds. This edition also includes two other, hitherto less accessible, utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacon's visionary ideal of the role that science should play in the modern society. Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), a precursor of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, engages with some of the sexual, racial, and colonialist anxieties of the end of the early modern period. Together these texts illustrate the diversity of the early modern utopian imagination, as well as the different purposes to which it could be put.
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Utopia ; New Atlantis ; The Isle of Pines

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.11.2008
Reihe/Serie Oxford World's Classics
Zusatzinfo 4 line drawings
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 196 mm
Gewicht 222 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-19-953799-2 / 0199537992
ISBN-13 978-0-19-953799-0 / 9780199537990
Zustand Neuware
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