Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century
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Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century by Alessa Johns
Examines the utopian communities envisaged by Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Mary Hamilton, Sarah Scott, and other writers from Britain and continental Europe, exploring the ways in which they resembled - and departed from - traditional utopias. This book also demonstrates that women's utopias incorporated emerging liberal ideas.
"This timely and thoughtful study presents a complex and coherent argument, resting on a combination of extensive scholarship and some very fine analysesJohns's book is characterized by lively and sometimes quite lovely prose, as well as a graceful, effective rhetorical style." -- Ann Van Sant, author of Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Sense in Social Context
Alessa Johns is professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780252028410 |
| ISBN 10 | 0252028414 |
| Title | Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century |
| Author | Alessa Johns |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Year published | 2003-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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