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date: 05 December 2019

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This article charts the variety and complexity of the Utopian tradition in English. It discusses the sources and intertextualities of Utopia and its utopian project, in other words the other texts and historical developments utopia is in dialogue with; the continued development of the utopian framework of thought from 1516 to 1640; and the dialectic of engagement and disengagement that utopianism imposes on people who would respond to it, whether for the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries or for the present.

Keywords: Utopian tradition, English prose, utopian project, utopianism, engagement

Robert Appelbaum

Robert Appelbaum received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Professor of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. His publications include Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture and Food Among the Early Moderns (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and Dishing It Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience (Reaktion, 2011). A Leverhulme and AHRC Fellow, his most recent research focuses on terrorism and the literary imagination.

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