Of Islands and Bridges: Figures of Uneven Development in Bacon's New Atlantis.
This essay locates a trend in early English literature to imagine fantastical feats of territorial engineering, including the tale of island-making in More's Utopia and a dream for continent-bridging in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. It considers how these geographical representations negotiate a desire...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 28 - 60 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2012
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