Jason H. Pearl
Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel
Jason H. Pearl · 2014
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"This book considers how writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia--in particular the idea of utopia as a geographic location--and how questions about world geography and utopian possibility drove many of the formal innovations of the early English novel. Works examined include Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN
- 9780813936239
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