Divulging Utopia
Subtitle: radical humanism in sixteenth-century England
By: David Weil Baker.
Series: Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546 -- Political and social views.; More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Appreciation -- England.; Printing -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Radicalism -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Utopias -- History -- 16th century.; Humanists -- England.; England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
Description: "A study in intellectual history and the history of the book, this work examines the humanist movement in sixteenth-century England and traces the reception of a single work, Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516), in relation to that movement."--BOOK JACKET.

"Scrutinizing translations, popularizations, "anti-Utopias," and theological debates, David Weil Baker makes the case that the humanists of the English Renaissance were themselves reading More's Utopia, Erasmus's Praise of Folly, and other works of Continental humanism in far more politically radical ways than scholars have generally recognized."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-215) and index.