Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780813936239
Subjects: Newcastle, margaret cavendish, duchess of, 1624?-1674; Behn, aphra, 1640-1689; Defoe, daniel, 1661?-1731; Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745; Utopias in literature; English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century
Description: "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"--