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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... organization that can be applied immedi- ately , with little or no concern for the inertial authority of preexisting social and political forms . Likewise , these texts encounter displaced populations that are var- iously created ...
... organization that can be applied immedi- ately , with little or no concern for the inertial authority of preexisting social and political forms . Likewise , these texts encounter displaced populations that are var- iously created ...
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... organization as a positive cultural tradition . But the Indians ' displacement was also real . Epidemics of European origin preceded full - scale European colonization , and a phase of military conquest cul- minating in the Pequot War ...
... organization as a positive cultural tradition . But the Indians ' displacement was also real . Epidemics of European origin preceded full - scale European colonization , and a phase of military conquest cul- minating in the Pequot War ...
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... organization from Exodus . The first organization " will be as a pattern and copy before them , to imitate in all the country , both 118 A RATIONAL MILLENNIUM.
... organization from Exodus . The first organization " will be as a pattern and copy before them , to imitate in all the country , both 118 A RATIONAL MILLENNIUM.
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Introduction | 3 |
Paradise NewModeled | 34 |
John Eliots Empirical Millennialism | 102 |
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