New worlds reflected: travel and utopia in the early modern period
Introduction / Chloë Houston -- Rebuilding Solomon's temple: Richard Hakluyt's great instauration / David Harris Sacks -- Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The man in the moone: births of science-fiction 1593-1638 / William Poole -- Utopia, millenarianism, and the Baconian pr...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Farnham, Surrey Burlington VT
Ashgate
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Houston, Chloë, New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period] (2012) (Nayar, Pramod K.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Utopia
/ History 1600-1800
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Collection of essays
B Utopias in literature B Travelers' writings, English History and criticism B Utopias History B Travel in literature B Science fiction, English History and criticism B Conference program B English fiction Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism |
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| Summary: | Introduction / Chloë Houston -- Rebuilding Solomon's temple: Richard Hakluyt's great instauration / David Harris Sacks -- Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The man in the moone: births of science-fiction 1593-1638 / William Poole -- Utopia, millenarianism, and the Baconian programme of Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Line Cottegnies -- 'The dream of Madagascar': English disasters and pirate utopias of the early modern Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald -- The uses of 'piracy': discourses of mercantilism and empire in Hakluyt's The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake / Claire Jowitt -- Palmares: utopian representations of a runaway settlement in colonial Brazil / Analisa DeGrave -- Utopia and education in the seventeenth century: Bacon's Salomon's House and its influence / Chloë Houston -- "Atlantick and Eutopian polities': utopianism, republicanism and constitutional design in the interregnum / Rosanna Cox -- Henry Neville's The isle of pines: from sexual utopia to political dystopia / Daniel Carey |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Literaturverzeichnis S. [223] - 255 |
| Physical Description: | IX, 262 S., Ill. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-6647-9 |
