New Worlds Reflected : Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period (Paperback)

Introduction; Part 1 Utopia and Knowledge; Chapter 1 Rebuilding solomon’s Temple: Richard hakluyt’s Great Instauration, David Harris Sacks; Chapter 2 Kepler’s Somnium and Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone : Births of Science-Fiction 1593?1638, William Poole; Chapter 3 Utopia, Millenarianism, and the Baconian Programme of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), Line Cottegnies; Part 2 Utopian Communities and Piracy; Chapter 4 of the author’s dissertation, ‘Pirates, Merchants, Settlers and Slaves: Making an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1640?1730’ (University of California-Santa Cruz, 2008), which explores global trade networks and trans-cultural settlements that connected the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds in the early modern era. The author wishes to thank Chloe Houston, Birkbeck College, London, the University of California-London, the British Library, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California., Kevin P. McDonald; Chapter 5 The Uses of ‘Piracy’: Discourses of Mercantilism and Empire in Hakluyt’s The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1 Parts of this chapter also appear in Claire Jowitt, The Culture of Piracy, 1580?1630: English Literature and Seaborne Crime (Aldershot, 2010)., Claire Jowitt; Chapter 6 Palmares: Utopian Representations of a Runaway Settlement in Colonial Brazil, Analisa De Grave; Part 3 Utopia and the State; Chapter 7 Utopia and Education in the Seventeenth Century: Bacon’s Salomon’s House and its Influence, Chloe Houston; Chapter 8 ‘ Atlantick and Eutopian Polities’: Utopianism, Republicanism and Constitutional Design in the Interregnum. 1 I would like to thank Joad Raymond for his very helpful suggestions for this article. I am also very grateful to Antti Tahvanainen, Robyn Adams, and to the editor of this volume, Chloe Houston., Rosanna Cox; Chapter 9 Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines : From Sexual Utopia to Political Dystopia, Daniel Carey; Chapter 10 Afterword, Andrew Hadfield;