Utopia and the ideal society : a study of English utopian writing 1516-1700
This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia.
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Preface; Introduction; 1. Utopia and the ideal society: in search of a definition; 2. The re-emergence of utopia: Sir Thomas More; 3. The re-emergence of utopia: the European experience 1521–1619; 4. Robert Burton and the anatomy of utopia; 5. Sir Francis Bacon and the ideal society; 6. Samuel Gott's New Jerusalem; 7. Gerrard Winstanley and the Restoration of True Magistracy; 8. James Harrington's Oceana; 9. The Harringtonians; 10. Royalism and utopia; 11. The full-employment utopia of seventeenth-century England; Conclusion; Bibliographies; Index.