Title Renaissance utopias and the problem of history / Marina Leslie

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Praxis Makes Perfect: Utopia and Theory -- 2. Mapping Out History in More's Utopia -- 3. Utopia Spelled Out -- 4. The New Atlantis: Bacon's History of the New Science -- 5. Revisiting Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's: Blazing World Summary Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts - Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World - as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index Notes Print version record Subject Utopias -- History Utopias in literature. Literature and history. European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism utopian literature. HISTORY -- Renaissance. European literature -- Renaissance Utopias in literature Literature and history Utopias Utopische literatuur. Engels. Geschiedenis. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501745263 1501745263

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