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Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700

J. C. Davis

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Preface Introduction 1. Utopia and the ideal society: in search of a definition 2. The re-emergence of utopia: Sir Thomas More 3. The re-emergence of utopia: the European experience 1521-1619 4. Robert Burton and the anatomy of utopia 5. Sir Francis Bacon and the ideal society 6. Samuel Gott's New Jerusalem 7. Gerrard Winstanley and the Restoration of True Magistracy 8. James Harrington's Oceana 9. The Harringtonians 10. Royalism and utopia 11. The full-employment utopia of seventeenth-century England Conclusion Bibliographies Index.

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Key concepts: Utopia, Ideal (ethics), Index (typography), Philosophy, Art history, Art, Epistemology, Computer science