Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Informationen zum Autor Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge UP, 2002), Dishing It Out (Reaktion, 2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Zero, 2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: the Mythography of Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (Oxford UP, 2015). Klappentext Appelbaum surveys the utopian imagination in literature from 1603 to the 1660s. Zusammenfassung Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics was engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. This study will interest political and cultural historians! literary critics and social theorists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Appelbaum, Robert Applebaum
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521009157
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00915-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800