Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History - Hardcover

Leslie, Marina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801434009 ISBN 13: 9780801434006

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1998

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Book by Leslie Marina

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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.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0801434009
• ISBN 13: 9780801434006
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200