| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Utopia and geography -- The flickering blazing world -- Remembering paradise in Oroonoko -- Urban solitude and the Crusoe trilogy -- Piracy and brotherhood in Captain Singleton -- Misanthropia and Gulliver's travels -- Conclusion: Future enclaves. |
| Summary |
"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia--in particular the idea of utopia as a geographic location--and how questions about world geography and utopian possibility drove many of the formal innovations of the early English novel. Works examined include Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels.
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Captain Singleton.
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.
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Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko.
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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Description of a new world, called the blazing world.
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English fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Geography in literature.
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Utopias in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781322076461 |
| ISBN |
1322076464 (electronic bk.) |
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9781322076461 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813936246 (electronic bk.) |
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0813936241 (electronic bk.) |
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0813936233 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780813936239 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780813936239 |
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