Title: Utopia and the ideal society :
Authors: Davis, J. C.,
Date: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: x, 427 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Utopia and the ideal society: in search of a definition -- The re-emergence of Utopia: Sir Thomas More -- The re-emergence of Utopia: the European experience 1521-1619 -- Robert Burton and the anatomy of Utopia -- Sir Francis Bacon and the ideal society -- Samuel Gott's New Jerusalem -- Gerrard Winstanley and the restoration of true magistracy -- James Harrington's Oceana -- The Harringtonians -- Royalism and Utopia -- The full-employment Utopia of seventeenth-century England.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Political science--Great Britain--History.; Utopias.