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Title:

New worlds reflected : travel and utopia in the early modern period / edited by Chlo©± Houston.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

ix, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Utopias in literature
Travel in literature
Utopias--History.
English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Science fiction, English--History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Houston, Chlo©±.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Chlo©± 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 / Chlo©± 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.

ISBN:

0754666476 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754666479 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)641212970

LCCN:

2010022171

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)