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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... debate privately for six weeks any legislation that the senate recommends , but when the deputies assemble in the prerogative , they must vote ( “ give the result " ) with no debate at all . The pre- rogative also possesses the power of ...
... debate privately for six weeks any legislation that the senate recommends , but when the deputies assemble in the prerogative , they must vote ( “ give the result " ) with no debate at all . The pre- rogative also possesses the power of ...
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... debate and consider , and will receive the natural deference of the duller fourteen , " not by hereditary right ... debate from result , but a product of their legislative integration : " That which was reason in the debate of the ...
... debate and consider , and will receive the natural deference of the duller fourteen , " not by hereditary right ... debate from result , but a product of their legislative integration : " That which was reason in the debate of the ...
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... debate he had within him- self came to a firm resolution : that the greatest advantages of a com- monwealth are , first , that the legislator should be one man , and sec- ondly that the government should be made altogether , or at once ...
... debate he had within him- self came to a firm resolution : that the greatest advantages of a com- monwealth are , first , that the legislator should be one man , and sec- ondly that the government should be made altogether , or at once ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Paradise NewModeled | 34 |
John Eliots Empirical Millennialism | 102 |
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