New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period
Chloë Houston
This title provides a contribution both to the history of utopian literature and travel, and to the wider cultural and intellectual history of the time, assembling original essays from scholars interested in representations of the globe and new and ideal worlds in the period from the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Contents
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Introduction
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Utopia and Knowledge
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15 |
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Rebuilding Solomons Temple Richard Hakluyts Great Instauration
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17 |
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Keplers Somnium and Francis Godwins The Man in theMoone Births of ScienceFiction 15931638
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Utopia Millenarianism and the Baconian Programme of Margaret Cavendishs The Blazing World 1666
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Utopian Communities and Piracy
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The Dream of Madagascar English Disasters and Pirate Utopias of the Early Modern IndoAtlantic World
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95 |
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The Uses ofPiracy Discourses of Mercantilism and Empire in Hakluyts The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
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115 |
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Palmares Utopian Representations of a Runaway Settlement in Colonial Brazil
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137 |
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Utopia and the State
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159 |
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Utopia and Education in the Seventeenth Century Bacons Salomons House and its Influence
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161 |
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Atlantick and Eutopian Polities Utopianism Republicanism and Constitutional Design in the Interregnum
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179 |
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Henry Nevilles The Isle of Pines From Sexual Utopia to Political Dystopia
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203 |
Other editions - View all
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New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period Chloë Houston Limited preview - 2016 |
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New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period Dr Chloë Houston Limited preview - 2013 |
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New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period Chloë Houston Limited preview - 2016 |
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