Overview
- Explores the history and development of utopian thought from Thomas More onwards, focusing particularly on the early modern period
- Examines the linguistic, social, cultural and material dimensions of subversive thinking in this period
- Demonstrates that both radical and utopian thought share narrative fictional qualities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism (PASU)
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Book Title: Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700
Book Subtitle: Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality
Authors: James Colin Davis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62232-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62231-6Published: 22 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87265-0Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62232-3Published: 07 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4471
Series E-ISSN: 2946-448X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 246
Topics: Intellectual Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Modern Europe, Political History