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Description for Utopia
Paperback. Serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. In this edition, the author contextualizes More's life and within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance. Translator(s): Miller, Clarence H. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
“This translation offers a fresh and vital encounter with Thomas More’s Utopia for a twenty-first century audience.”—Elizabeth McCutcheon, Utopian Studies
Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. In Utopia, More introduces the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, who tells of an island nation that he considers the most perfectly organized and harmonious in the world. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s rhetoric in this masterful translation. In an Afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes More’s life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance.
Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. In Utopia, More introduces the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, who tells of an island nation that he considers the most perfectly organized and harmonious in the world. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s rhetoric in this masterful translation. In an Afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes More’s life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance.
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300186109
SKU
V9780300186109
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About Thomas More
Clarence H. Miller, emeritus professor of English Literature at St. Louis University, served as executive editor of the fifteen-volume Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Jerry Harp, a poet and a Renaissance scholar, is assistant professor of English at Lewis and Clark College.
Reviews for Utopia
“Clarence H. Miller’s fine translation tracks the supple variations of More’s Latin with unmatched precision, and his Introduction and notes are masterly. Jerry Harp’s new Afterword adroitly places More’s wonderful little book into its broader contexts in intellectual history.”—George M. Logan, author of The Meaning of More’s “Utopia” “Sir Thomas More’s Utopia is not merely one of the foundational texts of western culture, but also a book whose most fundamental concerns are as urgent now as they were in 1516 when it was written. Clarence H. Miller’s wonderful translation of More’s classic is now happily once again available to readers. This is the English edition that best captures the tone and texture of More’s original Latin, and its notes and Introduction, along with the lively Afterword by Jerry Harp, graciously supply exactly the kinds of help a modern reader might desire.”—David Scott Kastan, Yale University