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100 1 $aBoesky, Amy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95118539
245 10 $aFounding fictions :$butopias in early modern England /$cAmy Boesky.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $ax, 233 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-214) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tFounding the "Best State of the Commonwealth": The School of Thomas More --$g2.$tA Land of Experimental Knowledge: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis --$g3.$tHouses of Industry: Utopias in the Commonwealth, 1641-1660 --$g4.$t"No Subjects to the Commonwealth": Nation and Imagination in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-world --$g5.$tNation, Miscegenation: Membering Utopia in Henry Neville's Isle of Pines --$g6.$tOut of the Mouth of History: Mastering Oroonoko.
520 $aA cultural history of utopian writing in early modern England, Founding Fictions traces the development of the genre from the publication of Thomas More's Utopia (1516) through Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688). Amy Boesky sees utopian literature rising alongside new social institutions that helped shape the modern English nation. While utopian fiction explicitly advocates a reorganization of human activity, which appears liberal or progressive, utopias represent reform in self-critical or qualitative ways.
520 8 $aEarly modern utopias, Boesky demonstrates, are less blueprints for reform than they are challenges to the very possibility of improvement.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103145
650 0 $aUtopias in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141637
852 00 $bglx$hPR756.U86$iB64 1996