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Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (391 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442682993
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance EnglandLOC classification:
  • PR418.U76 K46 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I. Utopian Differences -- i. Defining Middles: Morris, Fourier, Marx -- ii. Defining Beginnings: Utopia -- Chapter II. Carnival and Utopia -- i. Utopia as the Negation of Carnival -- ii. Carnival Strikes Back: Rabelais's Abbey of Theleme -- Chapter III. Utopia and the Commonwealth -- i. Conjuring Revolution in the Dialogue of Counsel -- ii. The Body Politic and Utopia in A Dialogue of Pole and Lupset -- iii. A Discourse of the Commonweal, the East Anglian Rebellion, and the End of the Smallholding Utopia -- Chapter IV. Sprung Desire and Groups in Flux: On the Politics of the Utopian Impulse in Marlowe and Shakespeare -- i. Travesty, Allegory, and the Political Effectivity of Renaissance Drama -- ii. Marlowe and the Utopia of Sprung Desire -- iii. Groups in Flux in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I -- Chapter V. Flights from the Tudor Settlement -- or, Carnival and Commonwealth Revised -- i. Nashe's Lenten Utopia -- ii. The Imperial Lab: Discovering Forms in The New Atlantis -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance Englandmakes a novel case for the social and cultural significance of Renaissance utopian writing, and of the modern utopia in general.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I. Utopian Differences -- i. Defining Middles: Morris, Fourier, Marx -- ii. Defining Beginnings: Utopia -- Chapter II. Carnival and Utopia -- i. Utopia as the Negation of Carnival -- ii. Carnival Strikes Back: Rabelais's Abbey of Theleme -- Chapter III. Utopia and the Commonwealth -- i. Conjuring Revolution in the Dialogue of Counsel -- ii. The Body Politic and Utopia in A Dialogue of Pole and Lupset -- iii. A Discourse of the Commonweal, the East Anglian Rebellion, and the End of the Smallholding Utopia -- Chapter IV. Sprung Desire and Groups in Flux: On the Politics of the Utopian Impulse in Marlowe and Shakespeare -- i. Travesty, Allegory, and the Political Effectivity of Renaissance Drama -- ii. Marlowe and the Utopia of Sprung Desire -- iii. Groups in Flux in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I -- Chapter V. Flights from the Tudor Settlement -- or, Carnival and Commonwealth Revised -- i. Nashe's Lenten Utopia -- ii. The Imperial Lab: Discovering Forms in The New Atlantis -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance Englandmakes a novel case for the social and cultural significance of Renaissance utopian writing, and of the modern utopia in general.

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