The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia

Cathy Shrank took her degrees in Cambridge in the 1990s, and has worked at King's College London, Aberdeen, and Sheffield. She has published extensively on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and culture, and is a scholarly editor of early modern texts, including Shakespeare's Sonnets. Major grants as PI include the AHRC-funded 'Origins of Early Modern Literature', a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and the AHRC-funded project 'Penniless? Thomas Nashe and Precarity in Historical Perspective'. Phil Withington trained as a social and economic historian at Cambridge in the early 1990s and worked at Aberdeen, Leeds, and Cambridge before joining the Department of History at Sheffield in 2012. He has published extensively on social history of the renaissance, urban culture and urbanization, and the history of intoxicants and intoxication. Major grants as PI include an ESRC mid-career fellowship, the ESRC/AHRC-funded project 'Intoxicants and Early Modernity', and the HERA-funded project 'Intoxicating Spaces'.

Phil Withington and Cathy Shrank: Introduction to Thomas More's Utopia
Part One: Origins and Contexts
1: Angie Hobbs: More and the Republics of Plato
2: Carla Suthren: Hythloday's Books: Utopia, Humanism, and the Republic of Letters
3: Andrew Zurcher: Nec minus salutaris quam festivus: Wit, Style, and the Body in More's Utopia
4: David Harris Sacks: The Religions of the Utopians: Sin and Salvation in Thomas More's Utopia
5: Joanne Paul: 'Nothing is private anywhere': Utopia in the context of More's thought
6: Andrew Hadfield: Utopia and Travel Writing
7: Jessica S. Hower: Utopia's Empire: Thomas More's Text and the Early British Atlantic World, c. 1510-1625
8: Eliza Hartrich: The Urban Context for Utopia: The English Urban System, 1450-1516
9: Andrew Taylor: Utopia Unbound: The Fabrication of the First Latin Editions, 1516-1519
Part Two: Translations and Editions, 1524-1799
10: Lucy Nicholas: ad fontes et ad futurum: A Survey of Latin Utopias
11: Gabriela Schmidt: From Prototype to Genre: Translations and Imitations of Utopia in Early Modern Germany (1524-1753)
12: Darcy Kern: Receiving More: Utopia in Spain and New Spain
13: Cathy Shrank: Utopia in Sixteenth-Century Italy
14: Richard Scholar: Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France
15: Jennifer Bishop: Utopia in Tudor London: Ralph Robinson's Translations and their Civic, Personal, and Political Contexts
16: Dermot Cavanagh: Dialogue, Debate, and Orality in Ralph Robinson's Utopias
17: Wiep van Bunge: 'Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland': Frans van Hoogstraten's translation of Utopia (1677)
18: Phil Withington: Utopia and Gilbert Burnet in 1684
19: Floris Verhaart: From Humanism to Enlightenment: Nicolas Gueudeville and his Translation of Thomas More's Utopia
20: Katherine Astbury: Thomas Rousseau, Translator of an Enlightened Utopia
Part Three: Translations and Editions after 1800
21: Marcus Waithe: False Friends (and their Uses): Thomas More's Utopia Among the Victorians
22: Janet Stewart: The Cultural Politics of Translation: Translating Thomas More's Utopia into German in the Late Nineteenth Century
23: Frances Nethercott: Not Just a Light-Hearted Joke: Russian Moreana from the Age of Karamzin to the Rise of Social Democracy and Lenin's 'Stele of Freedom'
24: Zsolt Czigányik: Utopia in Eastern Central Europe: The Hungarian Scene
25: Louise Johnson: A Catalan in Search of Humanists: Josep Pin i Soler's Translation of More's Utopia (1912)
26: Cat Moir: The Historical Fallacy: Utopia and the Problem of Fiction in Weimar Germany
27: Teruhito Sako: Japanese Translations of More's Utopia
28: Tehyun Ma: The Multiple Lives of Utopia in Modern China
29: Peter Hill: Utopia and Utopian Writing in Arabic
Part Four: Beyond Utopia
30: Chloë Houston: Early Modern Utopian Fiction: Utopia and The Isle of Pines
31: Nicole Pohl: Of Survival and Living Together: The Eighteenth-Century Utopian Novel
32: Ingrid Hanson: Conversation, Formation, and Forms of Utopia in Fin-de-Siècle Socialist Journals
33: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Musab Bajaber: Utopia, the Imperial Settler Utopia, and Imperial Settler Science Fiction
34: Johan Siebers: Away from the Ancestral Home: Utopia and Philosophy in Bloch and Beyond
35: Miguel Angel Ramiro Avilés: Human Rights and/in Utopia?
36: Martin Lutz: Utopia and Moral Economy
37: Diane Morgan: Utopia and Architecture
38: Alfred Hiatt: Mapping Utopia
39: Rhys Williams: Contemporary Utopianism: An Island Renaissance
Appendix A: Outline of More's Utopia
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