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OverviewLiterary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, ""somewhere"" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today. Drawing on a range of contemporary scholarship on utopianism and a broad premodern archive, Lochrie charts variant utopian strains in medieval literature and philosophy that diverge from More's work and at the same time plot uncanny connections with it. Examining works such as Macrobius's fifth-century Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, Mandeville's Travels, and William Langland's Piers Plowman, she finds evidence of a number of utopian drives, including the rejection of European centrality, a desire for more egalitarian politics, and a rethinking of the division between animals and humans. Nowhere in the Middle Ages insists on the relevance and transformative potential of medieval utopias for More's work and positions the sixteenth-century text as one alternative in a broader historical phenomenon of utopian thinking. Tracing medieval utopianisms forward in literary history to reveal their influences on early modern and modern literature and philosophy, Lochrie demonstrates that looking backward, we might extend future horizons of utopian thinking. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karma Lochrie , Ruth Mazo KarrasPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780812248111ISBN 10: 0812248112 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 26 May 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction. No Past Chapter 1. Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium Chapter 2. Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now Chapter 3. Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism Chapter 4. ""Something Is Missing"": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman, and The Dream of John Ball Chapter 5. Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments"ReviewsNowhere in the Middle Ages is an ambitious project, wide-ranging in its scope and developing a complex and original argument. There are no other books that do the kind of work on medieval utopian thinking that Karma Lochrie does here. * Steven Kruger, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY * Karma Lochrie issues a necessary provocation to productive rethinking. Serious and persuasive, Nowhere in the Middle Ages shakes Anglo-American literary scholarship from its critical slumber with respect to utopian thought, traditions, and texts. * Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria * """Nowhere in the Middle Ages is an ambitious project, wide-ranging in its scope and developing a complex and original argument. There are no other books that do the kind of work on medieval utopian thinking that Karma Lochrie does here."" * Steven Kruger, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY * ""Karma Lochrie issues a necessary provocation to productive rethinking. Serious and persuasive, Nowhere in the Middle Ages shakes Anglo-American literary scholarship from its critical slumber with respect to utopian thought, traditions, and texts."" * Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria *" Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 Nowhere in the Middle Ages is an ambitious project, wide-ranging in its scope and developing a complex and original argument. There are no other books that do the kind of work on medieval utopian thinking that Karma Lochrie does here. -Steven Kruger, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Karma Lochrie issues a necessary provocation to productive rethinking. Serious and persuasive, Nowhere in the Middle Ages shakes Anglo-American literary scholarship from its critical slumber with respect to utopian thought, traditions, and texts. -Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria Nowhere in the Middle Ages is an ambitious project, wide-ranging in its scope and developing a complex and original argument. There are no other books that do the kind of work on medieval utopian thinking that Karma Lochrie does here. -Steven Kruger, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Karma Lochrie issues a necessary provocation to productive rethinking. Serious and persuasive, Nowhere in the Middle Ages shakes Anglo-American literary scholarship from its critical slumber with respect to utopian thought, traditions, and texts. -Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria Author InformationKarma Lochrie is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University. She is author of Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh and Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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