| Description |
xii, 239 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition |
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Norton critical edition.
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| Contents |
The text of Utopia -- Backgrounds. Communism: the Goden Age / Ovid -- The Guardians / Plato -- The Acts of the Apostles [the Christian community] -- Saturn's age / Lucian of Samosata -- Naboth's vineyard / St. Ambrose -- John Ball's rebellion / Jean Froissart. -- The Humanist Circle: letters. Thoms More to Peter Giles -- Peter Giles to Jerome Busleiden -- Jerome Busleiden to Thomas More -- Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset -- Thomas More to Peter Giles -- Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten -- Criticism. A note on the first four essays -- The roots of More's socialism / Karl Kautsky -- The meaning of Utopia ; Utopia and the problems of 1516 / R. W. Chambers -- More the social critic] / Russell A. Ames-- The roots of Utopia and All Evil / J. H. Hexter -- The shape of Utopia / Robert c. Elliott -- The Prince and the Phalanx / Robert M.Adams -- [Utopia; game, chart, or prayer?]/ Harry Berger, Jr. -- Insights. [A satire on crying abuses] Frederic Seebohm -- [A jolly invention] / C. S. Lewis -- [A sad and witty book] / J. W. Allen -- Denying the contrary: More's use of Litotes in the Utopia / Elizabeth McCutcheon-- [Is Utopia an acount of the Inca empire? ]/ Arthur E. Morgan -- The first voyage ; The fourth voyage / Amerigo Vespucci |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 239 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 239 |
| Subject |
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
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Utopias -- Early works to 1800.
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| Genre/Form |
Utopian fiction.
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| Author |
Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996.
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| LC no. |
75017737 |
| ISBN |
0393043975 |
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0393092569 (paperback) |
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