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001 2013050103
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008 140204s2014 vaub b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2013050103
020 $a9780813936239 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9780813936246 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR830.U7$bP43 2014
082 00 $a823.009/372$223
100 1 $aPearl, Jason H.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aUtopian geographies and the early English novel /$cJason H. Pearl.
264 1 $aCharlottesville ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 203 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 155-198) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Utopia and geography -- The flickering blazing world -- Remembering paradise in Oroonoko -- Urban solitude and the Crusoe trilogy -- Piracy and brotherhood in Captain Singleton -- Misanthropia and Gulliver's travels -- Conclusion: Future enclaves.
520 $a"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia--in particular the idea of utopia as a geographic location--and how questions about world geography and utopian possibility drove many of the formal innovations of the early English novel. Works examined include Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aUtopias in literature.
650 0 $aGeography in literature.
600 10 $aNewcastle, Margaret Cavendish,$cDuchess of,$d1624?-1674.$tDescription of a new world, called the blazing world.
600 10 $aBehn, Aphra,$d1640-1689.$tOroonoko.
600 10 $aDefoe, Daniel,$d1661?-1731.$tRobinson Crusoe.
600 10 $aDefoe, Daniel,$d1661?-1731.$tCaptain Singleton.
600 10 $aSwift, Jonathan,$d1667-1745.$tGulliver's travels.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y17th century$xHistory and criticism.