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Alternative worlds imagined, 1500-1700 = essays on radicalism, utopianism and reality /

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Title/Author:	Alternative worlds imagined, 1500-1700/ by James Colin Davis.
Reminder of title:	essays on radicalism, utopianism and reality /
Author:	Davis, James Colin.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	viii, 246 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Radicalism. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62232-3
ISBN:	9783319622323

Alternative worlds imagined, 1500-1700 = essays on radicalism, utopianism and reality /
Davis, James Colin.

Alternative worlds imagined, 1500-1700essays on radicalism, utopianism and reality /[electronic resource] :by James Colin Davis. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - viii, 246 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in utopianism. - Palgrave studies in utopianism..

1. Introduction -- 2. Radicalism in a traditional society: The valuation of radical thought in the English Commonwealth, 1649-1660 -- 3. Afterword: Reassessing radicalism in a traditional society: two questions -- 4. Conquering the Conquest: the limits of non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought' -- 5. Formal Utopia/Informal Millennium: the struggle between form and substance as a context for seventeenth-century utopianism -- 6. Against Formality: one aspect of the English Revolution -- 7. Religion and the struggle for freedom in the English Revolution -- 8. Thomas More's Utopia: sources, legacy and interpretation -- 9. Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More's Utopian conclusion -- 10. James Harrington's utopian radicalism and the narration of an alternative world -- 11. Conclusion.

This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined 'realities'. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which radical and utopian fictions appear to become imperative. In particular, it closely examines non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought; millennialism and utopianism as mutual critiques; form and substance in early modern utopianism/radicalism; Thomas More's utopian theatre of interests; and James Harrington and the political necessity of narrative fiction. This detailed analysis underpins observations about the longer term historical significance and meaning of both radicalism and utopianism.

ISBN: 9783319622323

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-62232-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Radicalism.

LC Class. No.: HN49.R33 / D38 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 320.53

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