Renaissance Utopia Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society

A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII's reign to the Restoration, this book assesses the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More's Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. The Renaissance Utopia complements recent scholarly work on early modern communities by providing a thorough investigation of the issues informing a way of modeling a very particular community and literary mode - the utopia.

About the author

Chloë Houston is Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Chloe Houston, Chloë Houston
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.11.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781138255906
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25590-6
• Pages: 200
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Humanist philosophy, early modern literature, millenarian movements, political reform theory, philosophical dialogue analysis, early modern utopian communities, reformation discourse