A Rational Millennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-century England and AmericaOxford University Press, 1987 - 371 sider Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After arguing that early modern utopists, both literary and non-literary, attempt to reshape displaced populations, Holstun concentrates on two utopian projects of the mid-17th century: the political platforms and Algonquin "praying towns" of John Eliot in Massachusetts and the republican political writing of James Harrington in Protectorate England. Moving between these projects and modern analyses of rationalization, he shows that Puritan utopia shares the modern Western longing for universal social discipline and that it envisions this discipline as the rational means to the Millennium. |
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... ( Tracts 11 ) . The most appealing voice of Indian resistance in the Eliot Tracts is that of the " malignant drunken Indian " named George , who hears enough questions and answers about cosmogony and origins to parody them in an ...
... ( Tracts 11 ) . The most appealing voice of Indian resistance in the Eliot Tracts is that of the " malignant drunken Indian " named George , who hears enough questions and answers about cosmogony and origins to parody them in an ...
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... ( Tracts 281 ) Long lists of Indian questions about Christianity constitute much of the Eliot Tracts . Thomas Shepard presents them to his English readers as " part of the whitenings of the harvest " ( Tracts 47 ) . These lists of ...
... ( Tracts 281 ) Long lists of Indian questions about Christianity constitute much of the Eliot Tracts . Thomas Shepard presents them to his English readers as " part of the whitenings of the harvest " ( Tracts 47 ) . These lists of ...
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... Tracts 2 through 8 have been reprinted as Tracts Relating to the Attempts to Convert to Christianity the Indians of New England in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 3.4 ( 1834 ) : 1–287 . I will refer to these as Tracts ...
... Tracts 2 through 8 have been reprinted as Tracts Relating to the Attempts to Convert to Christianity the Indians of New England in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 3.4 ( 1834 ) : 1–287 . I will refer to these as Tracts ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Paradise NewModeled | 34 |
John Eliots Empirical Millennialism | 102 |
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