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Utopian geographies and the early English novel
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Title
Utopian geographies and the early English novel [electronic resource] / Jason H. Pearl.
ISBN
0813936241
9780813936246
0813936233
9780813936239 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia--in particular the idea of utopia as a geographic location--and how questions about world geography and utopian possibility drove many of the formal innovations of the early English novel. Works examined include Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Literature.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Utopia and geography
The flickering blazing world
Remembering paradise in Oroonoko
Urban solitude and the Crusoe trilogy
Piracy and brotherhood in Captain Singleton
Misanthropia and Gulliver's travels
Conclusion: Future enclaves.
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