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Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
By Robert Appelbaum
266 pages
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Synopsis
Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political ...
Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics.
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Table of contents
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- Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England *
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1 - The Look of Power 12
- Chapter 2 - Utopian Experimentalism, 1620–1638 64
- Chapter 3 - Reformation and desolation: the New Horizons of the 1640s 102
- Chapter 4 - Out of the “true Nothing, ” 1649–1653 140
- Chapter 5 - From Constitutionalism to Aestheticization, 1654–1670 172
- Notes 217
- Index 252