Iyengar, Sujata. “Royalist, Romancist, Racialist: Rank, Gender, and Race in the Science and Fiction of Margaret Cavendish.” English Literary History 69.3 (Fall 2002): 649-672.
I’m pretty much on board with your characterization of the utopian narrators we’ve encountered this semester (at least at the earlier trajectory) — they are de-psychologized, nowhere men (and women) […]
I think socializing friendship is probably right. I do know that it becomes a big deal in 17th century English political discourse. Laurie Shannon’s book comes to mind (I don’t know if she discusses More): […]
For my research project, I will be investigating the representation of animals in Cavendish’s New Blazing World. I’m thinking about this in two ways. First, there are the human-animal hybrids (bird-men, bear-men, […]
In the broadest sense, I think your project and proposal are very convincing. I read Middlemarch for the first time last semester and, post facto, I’m realizing how “utopian” it might be. […]
Both topics seem pretty engaging to me, although its clear you have a much stronger starting point with the Rasselas topic (seeing as how much you already have to say about it). There’s a lot of […]
Carey, Daniel. “Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines: From Sexual Utopia to Political Dystopia.” New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period. Chloe Houston, ed. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing […]
Thanks for sharing this with the class, Carrie. On a whim, I ordered it from Amazon and am gonna dig into it soon (perhaps for the research assignment for this class?). I’ll scan the intro and maybe we can add it […]
