.... The first of these modes is that of the philosophical experiment, most often presented as a utopian pedagogical fantasy in which a child and educator live apart from society and in which various educational approaches and techniques can be applied to the child without outside interference. We find examples...

.... This essay analyzes the Telegraph ’s connections with the London Corresponding Society, and explores the limitations of utopian models of telegraphic communication through the case of reformers exiled to Australia. Despite the practical limitations of telegraphic transmission, the Telegraph demonstrates...

...Adam R. Beach Loar Christopher F. . Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650–1750 . ( New York : Fordham Univ. , 2014 ). Pp. vii + 326. 5 ills . $45 Pearl Jason H. . Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel . ( Charlottesville : Univ...

..., of course, but no more than the reputedly routine Tuesday that precedes it. Soni’s most fun- damental contention is that “happiness” used to be ordinary language’s one utopian term, broadcasting, even in everyday speech, the implacable idea that people deserve to lead good lives, and not just...

...-generation Zionists centuries later, Huguenot emigrants sought to create an ideal state organized along new social lines with such utopian aspects as a communal life style. The original grand-scale project to found a new nation, the Isle of Eden, on one of the uninhabited Mascareigne islands east...

..., and contingency, as well as desire, utopian idealism, more curiosity, and less aggression. Ros Ballaster’s Fabulous Orients (2005), winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, has reinvigorated interest in the Oriental tale, which, she argues, began to distill three regions of the half-­imagined East: Persia...

... and the future, for instance, inspired Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), and during the eighteenth century inspired countless utopian narratives.15 Debates about what is and what ought to be— reflecting notions of loss or cultural deterioration as well as of optimistic belief...

... heirs to Scott’s utopian vision at Millenium Hall. The sisters also add significantly to what we know about women’s patronage. It has become clear that eighteenth-century women in the upper ranks did exercise power and participate in the public sphere in a number of important but informal...

... publics to the British nation, but whatever visions of Scottishness they cultivated — a “merry old” Scotland; a rural, traditional Scotland; a commer- cial, polite Scotland — were critical, aesthetic, sometimes utopian. They seem artifi cial when placed against the grim program of Jacobite ambition...

... children, his livestock, his land, and his political independence, he does no more than we would expect of Americans today. But some parts of his bucolic portrait, such as these lines from Letter II, don't fit the utopian ideal. I know I would not want to see a hornet land on my child's eyelid...

... publicized by their avowed enemies. I similarly felt that much of Shea’s discussion of Wieland’s utopian cos- mopolitanism in his version of Diogenes’s Republic overstressed the passivity of Diogenes as man of feeling and the depoliticization of what is, after all, a model republic in a late...

..., the colonial superintendent. Although British insti- tutions adopted Bell s system for educating the poor in the home country, Bell himself regarded attempts to diffuse literate skills throughout the lower orders as Utopian schemes (97). Yet Bell s pessimism was challenged by others who decried his...

... the quasi- egalitarian government of a privateer, in which crews might vote in coun- cil for a particular course of action, and that of utopian buccaneer com- monwealths in the West Indies.20 The buccaneers had liberated themselves from the shackles of governments and created an allegedly egalitarian...

... boundaries of the world. Suzanne Kiernan discusses a utopian deployment of exotic stories when she shows how the fictional journey by Zaccaria Seriman was used as a tool to criticize and comment on the abuses of contemporary Italy. Anthropological interests...

... Scott (1720  –  95), author of the utopian novel Millenium Hall (1762) and sister of Elizabeth Montagu. Pohl traces two contrasting faces of Scott that emerge in her correspondence. Scott was a committed reformer, advocating both a belief in Anglican philanthropy and the principles of social...

... study explores the many ways in which ruins were viewed in a period dominated by the aesthetic and cultural discourses of sensibility and of the picturesque: at one extreme, with nostalgia, pessimism, and a sense of tragic loss, and at the other, with utopian fervor, optimism, and hopeful idealiza...

... of the work. Frequently included in surveys and bibliographies of utopian and hodoeporetical writings, Seriman’s novel is a literary curiosity, historically and generically. It must be acknowledged that few claims can be made for it as literature in any narrow...

... 57 men of every country,” and he advances the claims of a “cosmopolitan” ori- entation that Goldsmith’s other writings of the late 1750s and early 1760s take very seriously.1 But while The Citizen of the World attempts to hold on to a utopian sense of global community, it off ers a number...

... ruined.” Accidents often accompanied displays, he notes, and their cost could “nourish a hundred poor families for a year.” 41 This theme also appears in Mercier’s utopian novel, L’An deux mille qua- tre cent quarante, where an important marriage is celebrated by having the prince erect a public...

... was a Baconian empiricist but also a projector, a quantifi er but a dreamer as well. He was a self-promoter and a land speculator whose sharp dealings mired him in endless litigation, but he was also a social idealist and some- time utopian who wished peace and plenty for all. Petty did a lot of his...