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Forms in Early Modern Utopia - The Ethnography of Perfection (Paperback)
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Forms in Early Modern Utopia - The Ethnography of Perfection (Paperback)
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Though much has been written about connections between early modern
utopia and nascent European imperialism, the author brings a fresh
perspective to the topic by exploring it through some of the
sub-genres that comprise early modern utopia, identifying and
discussing each specific form in the cultural and historical
contexts that render it suitable for the creation and promulgation
of utopian programs, whether imaginary or intended for actual
implementation. This study transforms scholarly understanding of
early modern utopia by first complicating our notion of it as a
single genre, and secondly by fusing our paradoxically fragmented
view of it as alternately a literary or social phenomenon. Her
analysis shows early modern utopia to be not a single genre, but
rather a conglomeration of many forms or sub-genres, including
travel writing, ethnography, dialogue, pastoral, and the sermon,
each with its own relationship to nascent imperialism. These
sub-genres bring to utopian writing a variety of discourses -
anthropological, theological, philosophical, legal, and more - not
usually considered fictional; presented in a humanist guise, these
discourses lend to early modern utopia an authority that serves to
counteract the general contemporary distrust of fiction. The author
shows how early modern utopia, in conjunction with the
authoritative forms of its sub-genres, is not only able to impose
its fictions upon the material world but in doing so contributes to
the imperialistic agendas of its day. This volume contains a
bibliographical essay as well as a chronology of utopian
publications and projects, in Europe and the New World.
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