Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9780521810821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 270 str.

Robert Applebaum

Opis

Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… thoughtful and scholarly study … Breadth of texts distinguishes Appelbaum's work from earlier scholars of utopia …'. Literature & History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The look of power; 2. Utopian experimentalism, 1620–38; 3. 'Reformation' and 'desolation': the new horizons of the 1640s; 4. Out of the 'true nothing', 1649–53; 5. From constitutionalism to aestheticization, 1654–70; Note; Index.