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Loading... A rational millennium : Puritan utopias of seventeenth-century England and Americaby James Holstun
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Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After arguing that early modern utopists, both literary and non-literary, attempt to reshape displaced populations, Holstun concentrates on two utopian projects of the mid-17th century: the political platforms and Algonquin "praying towns" of John Eliot in Massachusetts and the republican political theory of James Harrington in Protectorate England. Moving between these projects and modern analyses of rationalization, he shows that Puritan utopia shares the modern Western longing for universal social discipline and that it envisions this discipline as the rational means to the Millennium. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)828.408Literature English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1625-1702 Prose literature. Collections and discussions of works in more than one prose form.LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |