Leslie, Marina - Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History

Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1998). orig.boards. 23x15cm, viii,200 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Defining Nowhere & Other Utopian Projects; Nowhere in History; Praxis Makes Perfect: Utopia & Theories; Mapping Out History in More's Utopia: Method & Reform; Figuring Out Utopia; Mapping out Utopia;From Utopia to History and Back; Utopia Spelled Out: Inscribing Utopia; Europia / Heterotopia; European Authority & Utopian Counterfeits; The New Atlantis: Bacon's History of the New Science: Bacon & the Fables of History; Visions of Empire & the Politics of Praise; The "Virgin of the World": The Poetics of History & the Art of Nature; Rereading the New Atlantis; Revisiting Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's 'Blazing World': Women on Top of the 'Blazing World'; Diagnosing Utopia; "The Whole Story of This Lady is a Romance"; Nature & & the Anatomy of Utopia; Origins & Originality: (Self-) Invention & Utopia.

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