New worlds reflected
Subtitle: travel and utopia in the early modern period
By: edited by Chloë Houston
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780754666479
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Travel in literature; Utopias; History; English fiction; History and criticism; English Science fiction; Travelers' writings, English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Chloë Houston; title: Rebuilding Solomon's temple: Richard Hakluyt's great instauration / David Harris Sacks; title: Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The man in the moone: births of science-fiction 1593-1638 / William Poole; title: Utopia, millenarianism, and the Baconian programme of Margaret Cavendish's The blazing world (1666) / Line Cottegnies; title: 'The dream of Madagascar': English disasters and pirate utopias of the early modern Indo-Atlantic world / Kevin P. McDonald; title: The uses of 'piracy': discourses of mercantilism and empire in Hakluyt's The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake / Claire Jowitt; title: Palmares: utopian representations of a runaway settlement in colonial Brazil / Analisa DeGrave; title: Utopia and education in the seventeenth century: Bacon's Salomon's House and its influence / Chloë Houston; title: "Atlantick and Eutopian polities': utopianism, republicanism and constitutional design in the interregnum / Rosanna Cox; title: Henry Neville's The isle of pines: from sexual utopia to political dystopia / Daniel Carey.