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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... nature . The topography of pastoral landscape may represent a monarchical body politic , with all of nature organized around the figure of a perfect prince who alone can provide the commanding head that will return the body of nature to ...
... nature . The topography of pastoral landscape may represent a monarchical body politic , with all of nature organized around the figure of a perfect prince who alone can provide the commanding head that will return the body of nature to ...
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... nature . Intermitted nature , as that the waters of the Red Sea were mountains , that the sun stood still in the dial of Ahaz , is a miracle . To continue the latter kind of miracle were to destroy the former , that is to dissolve ...
... nature . Intermitted nature , as that the waters of the Red Sea were mountains , that the sun stood still in the dial of Ahaz , is a miracle . To continue the latter kind of miracle were to destroy the former , that is to dissolve ...
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... nature of the good , the difference between good and bad pleasures , the relation between rea- son and religion ... nature , " attributing them to a universal moral subject : " When nature prompts us to be kind to our neighbors ...
... nature of the good , the difference between good and bad pleasures , the relation between rea- son and religion ... nature , " attributing them to a universal moral subject : " When nature prompts us to be kind to our neighbors ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Paradise NewModeled | 34 |
John Eliots Empirical Millennialism | 102 |
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