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NEW WORLDS REFLECTED

New Worlds Reflected

Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period

Edited by

CHLO HOUSTON
University of Reading, UK

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
New worlds reflected : travel and utopia in the early modern period.

1. Utopias. 2. Utopias in literature. 3. Travelers writings History and criticism. 4. Voyages and travels History 16th century. 5. Voyages and travels History 17th century. I. Houston, Chloe. 820.9372dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
New worlds reflected : travel and utopia in the early modern period / [edited by] Chlo Houston.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 9780754666479 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Utopias in literature. 2. Travel in literature. 3. Utopias History. 4. English fiction Early modern, 15001700 History and criticism. 5. Science fiction, English History and criticism. 6. Travelers writings, English History and criticism.

I. Houston, Chlo.

PN56.U8N48 2010

809.93372dc22 2010022171

ISBN 9781315598192 (ebk)
ISBN 9780754666479 (hbk)

Contents

Chlo Houston

David Harris Sacks

William Poole

Line Cottegnies

Kevin P. McDonald

Claire Jowitt

Analisa DeGrave

Chlo Houston

Rosanna Cox

Daniel Carey

Andrew Hadfield

Notes on Contributors

Daniel Carey is Senior Lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and has edited The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory (Oxford University Press, 2009), with Lynn Festa, and Asian Travel in the Renaissance (Blackwell, 2004). He is currently completing Renaissance Travel: A Cultural History, 15601700, for Columbia University Press, and is preparing a critical edition of Henry Nevilles Isle of Pines.

Line Cottegnies is Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. She is the author of LEclipse du regard: la posie anglaise du baroque au classicisme (16251660) (Droz, 1997) and has co-edited several collections on seventeenth-century literature, including Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish (Associated University Presses, 2003), with Nancy Weitz. She has translated Cavendishs Blazing World into French (Le Monde glorieux, Corti, 1999), as well as Mary Astells A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (ENS Editions) and Shakespeares Henry VI plays (Gallimard, Bibliothque de la Pliade). She has published articles on various aspects of early-modern literature, most recently on Margaret Cavendish and on translation in the seventeenth century in particular Aphra Behns translations.

Rosanna Cox is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent. She works mainly on the politics, literature and thought of the civil war, commonwealth and restoration periods and is particularly interested in the works of John Milton. She is currently working on her monograph on Milton and citizenship and has published articles on Miltons politics, on early modern ideas of education, and on republican diplomacy and the interregnum. Her next project will focus on early modern diplomacy and diplomatic protocol in the mid-seventeenth century and will include a co-edited collection of essays, Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture.

Analisa DeGrave is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She received her PhD and Masters in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of interest include constructions of utopia and dystopia in Latin American literature, eco-literature, Nuyorican poetry and spoken word, and literature of Latin American revolutionary movements. She has published articles on the subject of utopia in Confluencia: Revista Hispnica de Cultura y Literatura, MaComre: The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars; Hispanic Poetry Review; and Ixquic: Revista Hispnica Internacional de Anlisis y Creacin.

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of works on early modern British literature and culture, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; Shakespeare, Spenser and The Matter of Britain (Palgrave, 2003); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 15401625 (Oxford University Press, 1998); and Spensers Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (Oxford University Press, 1997). He has also edited (with Raymond Gillespie) The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 15501800 (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Chlo Houston is Lecturer in Early Modern Drama in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Reading, and is currently writing a monograph on utopian literature entitled Renaissance Utopia: Literature, Reform and the Ideal Society. Her publications include articles on New Atlantis; Utopia; and Gullivers Travels, and a chapter on global utopias in the Companion to the Global Renaissance (Blackwell, 2009). Her current research interests focus on the intersections between utopian and travel writing, and on early modern perceptions of Persia and Islam.

Claire Jowitt is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. She is the author of Voyage Drama and Gender Politics 15891642: Real and Imagined Worlds (Manchester University Press, 2003) and editor of Pirates? The Politics of Plunder 15501650 (Palgrave, 2006). A new monograph, The Culture of Piracy, 15801630: Literature and Seaborne Crime, and a collection co-edited with Daniel Carey, Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

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