Utopia and the ideal society : a study of English utopian writing 1516-1700 / J.C. Davis
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983, c1981
Descript
427 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Utopia and the ideal society: in search of a definition -- The re-emergence of Utopia: Sir Thomas More -- The re-emergence of Utopia: the European experience 1521-1619 -- Rober Burton and the anatomy of Utopia -- Sir Francis Bacon and the ideal society -- Samuel Gott's new Jerusalem -- Gerrard Winstanley and the restoration of true magistracy -- James Harrington's oceana -- The Harringtonians -- Royalism and Utopia -- The full-employment Utopia of seventeenth-century England -- Conclusion