Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England / Robert Appelbaum.

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Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-

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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511019017
9780511019012
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9780521009157
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9780511120138
9780511483431
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9781280159589
9786610159581
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and Utopian politics in seventeenth-century England.DDC classification:

820.9/358 21

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PR438.P65 A67 2002eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- 1. The look of power -- 2. Utopian experimentalism, 1620-1638 -- 3. "Reformation" and "desolation" : the new horizons of the 1640s -- 4. Out of the "true nothing", 1649-1653 -- 5. From constitutionalism to aestheticization, 1654-1670 -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-251) and index.

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Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics.

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