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A Rational Millennium
James Holstun
其他書名
Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-century England and America
出版Oxford University Press, 1987
主題Business & Economics / Development / Economic DevelopmentLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN01950414109780195041415
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=td9ZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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 writing 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.