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.
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Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700
Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality
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Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Radicalism in a Traditional Society: The Evaluation of Radical Thought in the English Commonwealth 1649–1660
- Chapter 3 Reassessing Radicalism in a Traditional Society: Two Questions
- Chapter 4 Conquering the Conquest: The Limits of Non-Violence in Gerrard Winstanley’s Thought
- Chapter 5 Formal UtopiaInformal Millennium: The Struggle Between Form and Substance as a Context for Seventeenth-Century Utopianism
- Chapter 6 Against Formality: One Aspect of the English Revolution
- Chapter 7 Religion and the Struggle for Freedom in the English Revolution
- Chapter 8 Thomas More’s Utopia: Sources, Legacy and Interpretation
- Chapter 9 Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More’s Utopian Conclusion
- Chapter 10 James Harrington’s Utopian Radicalism: Oceana and the Narration of an Alternative World
- Chapter 11 Conclusion
- Index
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