Founding Fictions - 9780820318325
Un libro in lingua di Amy Boesky edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 1996
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After an initial discussion of More's Utopia, Boesky devotes subsequent chapters to Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the Civil War Utopias of Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Gott, and Gerrard Winstanley, Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-world, and Henry Neville's Isle of Pines. Relating the English public school to More's Utopia, and early modern laboratories to Bacon's New Atlantis, Boesky shows how utopists explored the formation of cultural identity through new institutional models. Utopias of the 1640s and 1650s are read against new emphasis on work as the panacea for social ills; Cavendish's Blazing-world is seen as reproducing and reassessing restoration centers of authority in the court and theater; and finally, Neville's Isle of Pines and Behn's Oroonoko are read as interrogating the authorities of the English colony.
Despite widely divergent backgrounds, says Boesky, these utopists shared a sense that national identity was shaped less by individuals than by institutions, which they praise for producing trained and trainable citizens instilled with the values of the modern state: obedience, discipline, and order. While the utopia tells its story partly to justify the goals of colonialism and to enforce differences in class, gender, and race, it also tells a concurrent and less stable story that criticizes these ventures and exposes their limitations.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Founding Fictions
- Sottotitolo: Utopias in Early Modern England
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Amy Boesky
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Gennaio '96
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- Argomenti : English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Utopias in literature
- Pagine: 233
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 146 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0820318329
- EAN-13: 9780820318325