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New Worlds Reflected - Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover, New Ed)
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New Worlds Reflected - Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and
literary history of the early modern period. From the time of
Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to
contemporary travel narratives, with which they shared interests in
physical and metaphorical journeys, processes of exploration and
discovery, encounters with new peoples, and exchange between
cultures. Travel writers, too, turned to utopian discourses to
describe the new worlds and societies they encountered. Both utopia
and travel writing came to involve a process of reflection upon
their authors' societies and cultures, as well as representations
of new and different worlds. As awareness of early modern
encounters with new worlds moves beyond the Atlantic World to
consider exploration and travel, piracy and cultural exchange
throughout the globe, an assessment of the mutual indebtedness of
these genres, as well as an introduction to their development, is
needed. New Worlds Reflected provides a significant contribution
both to the history of utopian literature and travel, and to the
wider cultural and intellectual history of the time, assembling
original essays from scholars interested in representations of the
globe and new and ideal worlds in the period from the sixteenth to
eighteenth centuries, and in the imaginative reciprocal
responsiveness of utopian and travel writing. Together these essays
underline the mutual indebtedness of travel and utopia in the early
modern period, and highlight the rich variety of ways in which
writers made use of the prospect of new and ideal worlds. New
Worlds Reflected showcases new work in the fields of early modern
utopian and global studies and will appeal to all scholars
interested in such questions.
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