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Nowhere in the Middle Ages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292855
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nowhere in the Middle AgesDDC classification:
  • 321.070902
LOC classification:
  • PN56.U8 -- .L63 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Nowhere in the Middle Ages -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. No Past -- Chapter 1. Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium -- Chapter 2. Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now -- Chapter 3. Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism -- Chapter 4. "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball -- Chapter 5. Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reveals how utopian thinking was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today.
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Cover -- Nowhere in the Middle Ages -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. No Past -- Chapter 1. Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium -- Chapter 2. Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now -- Chapter 3. Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism -- Chapter 4. "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball -- Chapter 5. Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reveals how utopian thinking was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today.

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