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Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel
Jason H. Pearl
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Description for Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel
Hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have assessed the emerging novel’s realism and in particular the genre’s awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry in Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel, arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography.
Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and ... Read more
Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have assessed the emerging novel’s realism and in particular the genre’s awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry in Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel, arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography.
Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936239
SKU
V9780813936239
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About Jason H. Pearl
Jason H. Pearl is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University, USA.
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