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<p>A cultural history of utopian writing in early modern England, <i>Founding Fictions</i> traces the development of the genre from the publication of Thomas More's <i>Utopia</i> (1516) through Aphra Behn's <i>Oroonoko</i> (1688). Amy Boesky sees utopian literature rising alongside new social institutions that helped shape the modern English nation. While utopian fiction explicitly advocates a reorganization of human activity, which appears liberal or progressive, utopias represent reform in self-critical or qualitative ways. Early modern utopias, Boesky demonstrates, are less blueprints for reform than they are challenges to the very possibility of improvement.</p> <p>After an initial discussion of More's <i>Utopia</i>, Boesky devotes subsequent chapters to Francis Bacon's <i>New Atlantis</i>, the Civil War Utopias of Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Gott, and Gerrard Winstanley, Margaret Cavendish's <i>Blazing-world</i>, and Henry Neville's <i>Isle of Pines</i>. Relating the English public school to More's <i>Utopia</i>, and early modern laboratories to Bacon's <i>New Atlantis</i>, Boesky shows how utopists explored the formation of cultural identity through new institutional models. Utop

Author

Amy Boesky

Publisher

University Of Georgia Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820318325

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities