Utopian Imagination and Eighteenth Century Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781138418349 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Christine Rees

Opis

Beginning with a survey of the recurrent topics in utopian writing - power structures in the state, money, food, sex, the role of women, birth, education and death - the text aims to bring together canonical 18th-century texts containing powerful utopian elements.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Classical origins and Renaissance locations  2. Seventeenth-century utopias - witty fictions, but mere chimeras  3. Utopian discourse in the 18th century - a preliminary view  4. Utopia overseas - Robinson Crusoe, A General History of the Pyrates, Gaudentio di Lucca, Peter Wilkins  5. Utopia and satire - the Travels of Gulliver and others  6. Domestic utopias - Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Clarissa, Sir Charles Grandison  7. Women's utopias - New Atalantis, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Reflections upon Marriage, Millennium Hall, Munster Village  8. Utopia and the philosophical tale - Rasselas  Notes and references  Select bibliography

O autorze

Christine Rees