CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Northumbria Research Link Citation: Mahlberg, Gaby (2012) An island with potential: Henry Neville's 'The Isle of Pines'. In: Utopian moments: reading Utopian texts. Textual moments in the history of political thought . Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 60-66. ISBN 978-1849668217 Published by: Bloomsbury Academic URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849666848 <http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849666848> This version was downloaded from Northumbria Research Link: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/8507/ Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University’s research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. 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Utopian Moments PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd i 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought SERIES EDITORS J. C. Davis, Emeritus Professor of History, University of East Anglia, UK John Morrow, Professor of Political Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand Textual Moments provides accessible, fresh, short readings of key texts in selected i elds of political thought, encouraging close reading informed by cutting-edge scholarship. The unique short essay format of the series ensures that volumes cover a range of texts in roughly chronological order. The essays in each volume aim to open up a reading of the text and its signii cance in the political discourse in question and in the history of political thought more widely. Key moments in the textual history of a particular genre of political discourse are made accessible, appealing and instructive to students, scholars and general readers. Utopian Moments is the i rst title in the series. Future volumes will cover republican, federalist, cosmopolitan and feminist thought, sovereignty, human rights and more. PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd iiii 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM Utopian Moments Edited by Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés and J. C. Davis BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd iiiiii 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM First published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Copyright © 2012 Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés and J. C. Morrow; individual chapters © the contributors. This work is published subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licence. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher. For permission to publish commercial versions please contact Bloomsbury Academic. CIP records for this book are available from the British Library and the Library of Congress ISBN 978-1-84966-682-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-84966-821-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-84966-685-5 (ebook) This book is produced using paper that is made from wood grown in managed, sustainable forests. It is natural, renewable and recyclable. The logging and manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, Bodmin, Cornwall Cover designer: Designer Name Cover image: Artwork/Image permissions information www.bloomsburyacademic.com PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd iivv 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM [Dedication – to follow] PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd v 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd vvii 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM Contents Contributors ix Introduction xiii by J.C. Davis and Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés 1 Systemic Remedies for Systemic Ills: The Political Thought of More’s Utopia 1 by George M. Logan 2 More’s Utopia: Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufi ciency 8 by Susan Bruce 3 Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More’s Utopian Conclusion 15 by J. C. Davis 4 So Close, So Far: The Puzzle of Antangil 21 by Nadia Minerva 5 Microcosm, Macrocosm and ‘Practical Science’ in Andreae’s Christianopolis 27 by Edward Thompson 6 Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun and the Protective Celestial Bodies 34 by Maurizio Cambi 7 ‘A Dark Light’: Spectacle and Secrecy in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis 41 by Bronwen Price 8 Gerrard Winstanley’s The Law of Freedom: Context and Continuity 47 by John Gurney 9 ‘De Te Fabula Narratur’: Oceana and James Harrington’s Narrative Constitutionalism 53 by J. C. Davis 10 An Island with Potential: Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines 60 by Gaby Mahlberg vii PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd vviiii 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM 11 The Persian Moment in Denis Veiras’s History of the Sevarambians 67 by Cyrus Masroori and John Christian Laursen 12 Nature and Utopia in Morelly’s Code De La Nature 74 by Claudio de Boni 13 Sinapia, A Political Journey to the Antipodes of Spain 80 by Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés 14 Condorcet’s Utopianism: Faith in Science and Reason 86 by K. Steven Vincent 15 Women’s Rights and Women’s Liberation in Charles Fourier’s Early Writings 92 by Jonathan Beecher 16 A Tale of Two Cities: Robert Owen and the Search for Utopia, 1815–17 99 by Gregory Claeys 17 How to Change the World: Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon 106 by Neil McWilliam 18 The Utopian Organization of Work in Icaria 113 by David Leopold 19 The Horror of Strangeness: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 120 by Matthew Beaumont 20 ‘The Incompatibility I Could Not Resolve’: Ambivalence in H.G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia 127 by Richard Nate 21 Utopian Journeying: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed 133 by Laurence Davis and Peter G. Stillman Conclusion by Lyman Tower Sargent 140 Suggestions for Further Reading 146 Notes 150 Index 000 viii PPRELIMS.inddRELIMS.indd vviiiiii 116/01/126/01/12 66:11:11 PPMM Contributors Matthew Beaumont Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University College London (UCL); author of the books Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870–1900 and The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siecle ; editor of Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward for Oxford World Classics. Jonathan Beecher Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz; author of the books Charles Fourier: The Visionary and his World and Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism . Susan Bruce Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities at Keele University; editor of the books Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia/Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines and William Shakespeare: King Lear . Maurizio Cambi Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Salerno; author of the books Il prezzo della perfezione: Diritto reati e pene nelle utopie dal 1516 al 1630 and I tempi delle città ideali: Saggi su storia e utopia nella modernità ; editor of the book L’isola degli ermafroditi . Gregory Claeys Professor of the History of Political Thought at the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London; author of the books Machinery, Money and the Millennium: From Moral Economy to Socialism, Citizens and Saints: Politics and Anti-Politics in Early British Socialism, Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought and Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea ; editor of The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Thought . J.C. Davis Emeritus Professor of History at the University of East Anglia; author of the book Utopia and the Ideal Society and the chapter on More’s Utopia for The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Thought . Laurence Davis Lecturer in Politics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; editor, with Ruth Kinna, of the book Anarchism and Utopianism , and, with Peter Stillman, of The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed . Claudio De Boni Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Florence (Italy); author of Uguali e felici: Utopie francesi del secondo Settecento . ix CCONTRI.inddONTRI.indd iixx 116/01/126/01/12 111:581:58 AAMM x CONTRIBUTORS John Gurney Visiting Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University; author of Brave Community: the Digger Movement in the English Revolution . John Christian Laursen Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside; editor, with Cyrus Masroori, of a new edition of Denis Veiras’s History of the Sevarambians . David Leopold University Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow, Mansi eld College, Oxford; editor of William Morris’s News From Nowhere ; author of The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing . George M Logan James Cappon Professor of English (Emeritus) and a former Head of the Department of English at Queen’s University, Canada, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto; author of The Meaning of More’s ‘Utopia’ ; principal editor of the Cambridge edition of Utopia , and editor of More’s History of King Richard the Third , the third edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More .