Restoration and Augustan British Utopia, Paperback / softback Book

Restoration and Augustan British Utopia Paperback / softback

Edited by Gregory Claeys

Paperback / softback

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Gregory Claeys provides tangible evidence of a rich variety of utopian texts from the Restoration until the turn of the century.

The topics of these works are wide-ranging and include alchemy and natural science, imaginary voyages, some Arcadian, some utopian, descriptions of model societies, both Christian and classical and plans for working communities that proposed how to solve the problem of poverty and bring harmony to the poor.

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