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Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

by Thomas More (Author), Francis Bacon (Author), Henry Neville (Author), Susan Bruce (Editor) "Thou shalt understand, gentle reader, that thought this work of Utopia in English come now the second time forth in print, yet was it never..." (more)
Key Phrases: early modern utopias, utopian literature, ancillary materials, Master More, Salomon's House, Peter Giles (more...)
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With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia.
This edition also includes two other, hitherto less accessible, utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacon's visionary ideal of the role that science should play in the modern society. Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), a precursor of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, engages with some of the sexual, racial, and colonialist anxieties of the end of the early modern period. Bringing together these three New World texts, and situating them in a wider Renaissance context, this edition--which includes letters, maps, and alphabets that accompanied early editions--illustrates the diversity of the early modern utopian imagination, as well as the different purposes to which it could be put.

About the Author
Susan Bruce is at Keele University.

Product Details
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 13, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0192838857
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192838858
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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