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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... legislator , and so also the reappearance of the true legislator in the figure of Olphaus . Harrington's astonishing ability to overlook the continuing popular appeal of the ancient con- stitution and traditional loyalties allows him to ...
... legislator , and so also the reappearance of the true legislator in the figure of Olphaus . Harrington's astonishing ability to overlook the continuing popular appeal of the ancient con- stitution and traditional loyalties allows him to ...
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... legislator , not a succession of good dis- ciplinarians , for legislation is a single , instantaneous , and autonomous act of political poiesis : " Whereas a book or a building hath not been known to attain perfection , if it had not a ...
... legislator , not a succession of good dis- ciplinarians , for legislation is a single , instantaneous , and autonomous act of political poiesis : " Whereas a book or a building hath not been known to attain perfection , if it had not a ...
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... legislator here seems still to be very much like that of Olphaus Megaletor at the con- clusion of " The Second Part of the Preliminaries " to Oceana . Yet there has been a significant change . Harrington dedicates neither The ...
... legislator here seems still to be very much like that of Olphaus Megaletor at the con- clusion of " The Second Part of the Preliminaries " to Oceana . Yet there has been a significant change . Harrington dedicates neither The ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Paradise NewModeled | 34 |
John Eliots Empirical Millennialism | 102 |
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