Forms in early modern utopia
Subtitle: the ethnography of perfection
By: by Nina Chordas.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754658993; 9781409402183
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Utopias in literature; Literary form -- History -- 16th century; Literary form -- History -- 17th century; Travel writing -- History -- 16th century; Travel writing -- History -- 17th century; Ethnology -- History -- 16th century; Ethnology -- History -- 17th century; Pastoral literature -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dialogue, utopia, and the agencies of fiction; title: Ethnography, travel writing, pastoral, and their utopian manifestations; title: Utopia and ethnography in the extrafictional world: Edmund Spenser's view of the present state of Ireland; French Jesuits among the Huron: martyrdom, utopia, and ethnography; title: Homiletic discourse in the service of utopia: John Cotton preaches "God's promise to his plantations".