Three Early Modern Utopias

Name: Three Early Modern Utopias
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ISBN: 9780199537990

ISBN-10: 0199537992

ISBN-13: 9780199537990

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Susan Bruce, Henry Neville

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With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556 translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia. This edition also includes two other, hitherto less accessible, utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacon's visionary ideal of the role that science should play in the modern…

Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English