Writing the new world : imaginary voyages and utopias of the great southern land, David Fausett

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Note: Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 1988)

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-229) and index

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Contents: 1. What Was Utopia? -- 2. The Discovery of the Austral World -- 3. Early Austral Fiction -- 4. Baroque Allegories -- 5. Utopia and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism -- 6. Real and Imaginary Voyages -- 7. Shipwreck and Marooning in the Southland -- 8. The History of the Sevarites (1675-1679) -- 9. Splendid Isolation: The Southern Land, Known -- 10. The Mighty Kingdom of Krinke Kesmes (1708) -- 11. Austral Fiction and the Rise of Realism -- 12. The Body, the World, and the Word

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