Title: No island is an island
First published: 2000
Description: "In No Island Is an Island, an internationally renowned historian approaches four works of English literature from unexpected angles. Following in the footsteps of a sixteenth-century Spanish bishop we gain a fresh view of Thomas More's Utopia. Comparing Bayle's Dictionary with Tristram Shandy we suddenly enter into Laurence Sterne's mind. A seemingly narrow dispute among Elizabethan critics for and against rhyme turns into an early debate on English national identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Bottle Imp" throws a new light on Bronislaw Malinowsky's attempts to discover meaning in the "kula" trading system among the Trobriand Islanders. Throughout, Ginsburg's inquiry is informed by his unique microhistorical sensibility, his attention to minute detail, and his extraordinary synthesizing imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History and criticism, Literature and anthropology, Utopias, English literature, Influence, Difference (Psychology) in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Letterkunde, Early modern, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Engels, Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint), Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence), English literature, history and criticism, Irish literature, history and criticism, Scottish literature, history and criticism, Welsh literature, history and criticism, Utopias in literature
Places: Great Britain
People: Thomas More Sir, Saint (1478-1535), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700
LC classification: PR99 .G516 2000