Utopian geographies and the early English novel [electronic resource] / Jason H. Pearl.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780813936246
- 0813936241
- English fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Geography in literature
- Utopias in literature
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Captain Singleton
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe
- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko
- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Description of a new world, called the blazing world
- 823.009/372 23
- PR830.U7 P43 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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