Three Early Modern Utopias

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606057
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Early Modern Utopias written by Thomas More and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199537992
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Early Modern Utopias written by Thomas More and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Worthington Chauncey Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Isle of Pines, 1668 written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Digireads.Com
ISBN 13 : 9781420950717
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Early Modern Utopias written by Thomas More and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Thomas More first coined the word utopia in his 1516 book of the same name, the concept of a near perfect society dates at least back to the period of classical antiquity. Plato's "The Republic" is often cited as one of earliest attempts at addressing just such a society. However in the 16th century Thomas More's work established itself as the most famous example of this genre of literature. More's "Utopia" is described as an idealized island community upon which perfect social harmony has been achieved, all property is community owned, violence is nonexistent and everyone has the opportunity to work and live in an environment of religious tolerance. Along with this work "Three Early Modern Utopias" also includes Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis" and Henry Neville's "The Isle of Pines." Bacon's work, which appears over a century after Utopia, also concerns a utopian island which is happened upon by the crew of a European ship. On Bacon's mythical island of Bensalem, "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of its inhabitants. Neville's work follows a similar construct as Bacon's when five people are shipwrecked on the idyllic "Isle of Pines." These three early works help to define an entire genre of literature and greatly influenced the work of the many authors who followed in their footsteps.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book The New Atlantis written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marina Leslie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745263
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History written by Marina Leslie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. Rather than approach utopia by mapping out a fixed set of formal features, or by tracing the development of the genre, Leslie elaborates a history of utopia as critical practice. Moreover, by taking every reading of utopia to be as historically symptomatic as the literary production it assesses, her book integrates readings of these three English Renaissance utopias with an analysis of the history and politics of reading utopia. Throughout, Leslie considers utopia as a fictional enactment of historical process and method. In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Early Modern Utopias written by Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry Neville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734046971
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Isle of Pines (1668) written by Henry Neville and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville

Author : by H. G. Wells
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1433098482
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Utopia written by by H. G. Wells and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sotirios Triantafyllos
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648893797
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topos in Utopia written by Sotirios Triantafyllos and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Topos in Utopia' examines early modern literary utopias' and intentional communities' social and cultural conception of space. Starting from Thomas More's seminal work, published in 1516, and covering a period of three centuries until the emergence of Enlightenment's euchronia, this work provides a thorough yet concise examination of the way space was imagined and utilised in the early modern visions of a better society. Dealing with an aspect usually ignored by the scholars of early modern utopianism, this book asks us to consider if utopias' imaginary lands are based not only on abstract ideas but also on concrete spaces. Shedding new light on a period where reformation zeal, humanism's optimism, colonialism's greed and a proto-scientific discourse were combined to produce a series of alternative social and political paradigms, this work transports us from the shores of America to the search for the Terra Australis Incognita and the desire to find a new and better world for us.