Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful t

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional

This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.

Taking a new approach to the history of utopia, this volume combines the political study of literary form with the literary study of political rhetoric. After a