TY  - GEN
T1  - Utopia, carnival, and commonwealth in Renaissance England
T2  - CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
A1  - Kendrick, Christopher, 1953-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn666900801
AB  - With the emergence of utopia as a cultural genre in the sixteenth century, a dual understanding of alternative societies, as either political or literary, took shape. In Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England, Christopher Kendrick argues that the chief cultural-discursive conditions of this development are to be found in the practice of carnivalesque satire and in the attempt to construct a valid commonwealth ideology. Meanwhile, the enabling social-political condition of the new utopian writing is the existence of a social class of smallholders whose unevenly developed character prevents it from attaining political power equivalent to its social weight. In a detailed reading of Thomas More's Utopia, Kendrick argues that the uncanny dislocations, the incongruities and blank spots often remarked upon in Book II's description of Utopian society, amount to a way of discovering uneven development, and that the appeal of Utopian communism stems from its answering the desire of the smallholding class (in which are to be numbered European humanists) for unity and power. Subsequent chapters on Rabelais, Nashe, Marlowe, Bacon, Shakespeare, and others show how the utopian form engages with its two chief discursive preconditions, carnival and commonwealth ideologies, while reflecting the history of uneven development and the smallholding class. Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England makes a novel case for the social and cultural significance of Renaissance utopian writing, and of the modern utopia in general.
OP  - 382
CN  - PR418.U76 K46 2004
SN  - 9781442682993
SN  - 144268299X
SN  - 128199250X
SN  - 9781281992505
SN  - 0802089364
SN  - 9780802089366
KW  - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535 : Influence.
KW  - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535. : Utopia.
KW  - More, Thomas, : Saint, : 1478-1535
KW  - Utopia (More, Thomas, Saint)
KW  - English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism.
KW  - Utopias in literature.
KW  - Politics and literature : Great Britain : History : 16th century.
KW  - Politics and literature : Great Britain : History : 17th century.
KW  - Satire, English : History and criticism.
KW  - Imaginary societies in literature.
KW  - Carnival in literature.
KW  - Renaissance : England.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 1500-1700 (Moderne) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Utopies dans la littérature.
KW  - Politique et littérature : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 16e siècle.
KW  - Politique et littérature : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Carnavals dans la littérature.
KW  - Renaissance : Angleterre.
KW  - utopian literature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - HISTORY : Renaissance.
KW  - Carnival in literature
KW  - English literature : Early modern
KW  - Imaginary societies in literature
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Satire, English
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - England
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Utopie
KW  - Utopia (More)
KW  - Utopieën.
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - 1500-1700
KW  - Geschichte 1549-1660.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -