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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2015  
         
  Article:   ENGLISH UTOPIAN COMMONWEALTHS IN THE 17TH CENTURY / COMMONWEALTHS UTOPIQUES ANGLAIS AU XVIIE SIECLE.

Authors:  CORIN BRAGA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  English Utopian Commonwealths in the 17th Century. In 17th-century England, the Parliamentary Revolution and the subsequent political, economic and social changes gave birth to a series of social projects and utopian texts. Contrary to the skepticism with which Thomas More treated his own utopia, these propositions of better commonwealths were seen as feasible and pragmatical. As such, they were not intended as ou-topias, that is, chimerical and delusional social dreams, but as eu-topias, actual “good places” to be realized by utopian communities and radical sects, either in Europe or in the Americas (treated by Jean Meyer as a “true museum of sects”). Although most of them did not reach historical achievement, these utopias remain entrenched within realistic conventions of reading, as they deploy the certification devices of political discourses, law codes, and voyage literature.

Keywords: English literature; Utopia; 17th century Commonwealths; Gabriel Plattes; Macaria; James Harrington; Oceana; Noland.
 
         
     
         
         
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