| Restoration and Augustan British Utopia Contributor(s): Claeys, Gregory (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815628242 ISBN-13: 9780815628248 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2000 Annotation: A rich and diverse collection of late seventeenth-century British Utopian texts made up of rarer pieces -- many of which have never before been published -- from this period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Political Science |
| Dewey: 321.070 |
| LCCN: 99046752 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 7.09" W x 10.03" (1.23 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gregory Claeys provides tangible evidence of a rich variety of utopian texts from the Restoration until the turn of the century. The topics of these works are wide-ranging and include alchemy and natural science, imaginary voyages, some Arcadian, some utopian, descriptions of model societies, both Christian and classical and plans for working communities that proposed how to solve the problem of poverty and bring harmony to the poor. |