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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.

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"This timely and thoughtful study presents a complex and coherent argument, resting on a combination of extensive scholarship and some very fine analyses. Johns'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

Womens Utopias of the Eighteenth Century

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/07/2003
      ISBN13: 9780252028410, 978-0252028410
      ISBN10: 0252028414

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "This timely and thoughtful study presents a complex and coherent argument, resting on a combination of extensive scholarship and some very fine analyses. Johns'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

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