Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England.
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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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More, Thomas,-Saint,-1478-1535-Influence. More, Thomas,-Saint,-1478-1535.-Utopia. English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Politics and literature-Great Britain-History-16th century. Politics and literature-Great Britain-History-17th century. Satire, English-History and criticism. Imaginary societies in literature. Carnival in literature. Renaissance-England.