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Nowhere in the Middle Ages / Karma Lochrie.

Author/creator Lochrie, Karma author.
Format Book and Print
Edition1st edition.
Publication Info Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Description270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series The middle ages series
Middle Ages series. ^A511997
Contents Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium -- Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now -- Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism -- "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball -- Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored.
Abstract "Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today"--Publisher's description.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016024925
ISBN9780812248111 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
ISBN0812248112 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

Available Items

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Joyner General Stacks PN56 .U8 L63 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold