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The kingdom of science : literary utopianism and British education, 1612-1870

Title: The kingdom of science : literary utopianism and British education, 1612-1870 / Paul A. Olson.
Author: Olson, Paul A.
Publication: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2002.

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Description

xi, 375 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This book examines Baconian utopias as blueprints for a scientific sociology of knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the seventeenth century. Looking backward, the author begins with More's Utopia and Shakespeare's The Tempest, static state utopias designed to woo us toward a moral as opposed to a scientific reform. To these he then contrasts the primary subjects of his study--Bacon's New Atlantis, the Commonwealth educational utopias, and the utopianism of Adam Smith and his Utilitarian followers. These later utopias increasingly point to an ideal world to be dominated by a science linked to technology, compelled education, and competitive capitalism.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-355) and index.

Contents

Shakespeare's utopian Tempest and education by the book -- New Atlantis and the chiliastic utopias -- Bacon's commonwealth offspring -- The Scribleran revolt against education to extend human empire -- Adam Smith and utopia as process -- Utilitarian compulsory utopia -- The second generation utilitarians -- Dickens's utilitarian dystopia and the death of the social commons.

ISBN

0803235682
9780803235687

LCCN

2002003091
9780803235687

OCLC

ocm49249778
49249778
SCSB-8895787

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library