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The Beginnings: More’s Utopia The Beginnings: More’s Utopia
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Geographical Utopias Geographical Utopias
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Lunar and Subterranean Voyages Lunar and Subterranean Voyages
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Critical Utopias and Eu/uchronias Critical Utopias and Eu/uchronias
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31 Of Survival and Living Together: The Eighteenth-Century Utopian Novel
Get accessNicole Pohl is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Critical Theory at Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women’s utopian writings and on epistolarity, including Women, Space, and Utopia, 1600–1800 (Ashgate, 2006) and an edition of The Letters of Sarah Scott (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). She is editor of the journal Utopian Studies.
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Published:18 December 2023
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Abstract
The early novel of the eighteenth century developed from and reframed the fictional satire, romance, and prose fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It thus started off as a complex hybrid, experimenting in the eighteenth century with satire, romance, the supernatural, travel writing (including the imaginary voyage), sentimentalism, and ‘formal realism’ to capture human experiences with verisimilitude and historical relevance. This chapter will show that the utopian novel of the period integrates the ‘literary’ and ‘political’ into a polygeneric and polymodal literary genre that, as a ‘literature of knowledge for living and surviving’, not only reflects the issues of the day but is also guided by a discourse on change. These concerns, as the case studies indicate, were debated across Europe in the period, in dialogue with each other.
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