Utopianism in Eighteenth-Century Ireland by Deirdre Ni Chuanachain

Cork University Press, 2016-02-18. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.1100 9.1300 6.5700.

Cork Univ Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 260 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New. This book is the first full-length study of utopianism in eighteenth-century Ireland. It reveals that a distinct utopianism emerged in the early decades of the eighteenth century based on the improving visions of the Dublin Society

Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 2016. Hardcover. Good Condition. 16.7 x 24.3 x 2.8 cm. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Text unmarked and uncreased. A presentable used copy without significant defects. Publisher's note: The utopian propensity, the impulse to a better world, is found throughout human culture. However, its expression is necessarily historically and culturally variable. Utopianism in Ireland has an extensive and varied pre-history to be found in travellers' tales, the oral tradition of the Celtic Otherworld and in the early vision poems which reached apotheosis in the political aisling of the eighteenth century. Moreover, in the political realm, the vision of a nation, lost or not yet won, resonates in speeches, songs, manifestos. The emergent utopianism of the eighteenth century is predicated on both memory and reflections of the past as well as on visions for the future. These memories and reflections have been imagined and re-imagined in many… Read More

Cork Univ Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 260 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.