Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and
influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of
specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the
first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in
terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and
its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to
consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other
and to provide fresh and original contributions to our
understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and
afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of
More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of
scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An
especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow
Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary
moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of
writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The
Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the
origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its
translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and
modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the
present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of
More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to
the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring
themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for
readers new to the text.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Oxford Handbooks |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Volume editors: |
Cathy Shrank
• Phil Withington
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 171mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
784 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-888101-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-888101-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780198881018 |
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