New worlds reflected : travel and utopia in the early modern period

Folger bibliographic ID: 243864
Folger call number: PN56.U8 N48 2010
Folger holdings ID: 308920

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction / Chloë Houston -- Rebuilding Solomon's temple: Richard Hakluyt's great instauration / David Harris Sacks -- Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The man in the moone: births of science-fiction 1593-1638 / William Poole -- Utopia, millenarianism, and the Baconian programme of Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Line Cottegnies -- 'The dream of Madagascar': English disasters and pirate utopias of the early modern Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald -- The uses of 'piracy': discourses of mercantilism and empire in Hakluyt's The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake / Claire Jowitt -- Palmares: utopian representations of a runaway settlement in colonial Brazil / Analisa DeGrave -- Utopia and education in the seventeenth century: Bacon's Salomon's House and its influence / Chloë Houston -- "Atlantick and Eutopian polities': utopianism, republicanism and constitutional design in the interregnum / Rosanna Cox -- Henry Neville's The isle of pines: from sexual utopia to political dystopia / Daniel Carey

Extended title: New worlds reflected : travel and utopia in the early modern period / edited by Chloë Houston

Utopias in literature Travel in literature Utopias English fiction Science fiction, English Travelers' writings, English

associated with: Houston, Chloë