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Sites about Utopia

by Sir Thomas More

Critical sites about Utopia

A Bibliography of Thomas More's Utopia

http://purl.oclc.org/emls/01-2/lakomore.html

"This Utopia bibliography is organised topically into two major subdivisions, ten major sections and about sixty subtopics or subsections. The first major division deals with modern Editions and Translations, and the second with background scholarship (Studies in Utopia) published in the last hundred years (from about 1890 onwards), mainly in English and French. There is also a significant body of modern More scholarship in other languages, especially German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese, but it is beyond my current scope to include much of this scholarship in this bibliography."

Contains: Bibliography

Author: Romuald Ian Lakowski

From: Early Modern Literary Studies 1.2 (1995): 6.1-10

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Utopia and the 'Pacific Rim': The Cartographical Evidence

http://chass.utoronto.ca/emls/05-2/lakocart.htm

"This article examines the influence of Classical, Medieval and RenaissanceGeographical accounts (Ptolemy, Macrobius, Sacrobosco and the Cosmographiaeintroductio) on More's Utopia, especially with regard to theories about the fiveclimatic zones and the Antipodes. It also draws on contemporary maps to argue thatMore's geographical understanding was not modern, and that he thought of theisland of Utopia in primarily Antipodean and Asian ('Indian'), rather than Americanterms. In support of this a number of major cartographical discrepancies in maps arepointed out: South America is shown as close to Asia, North America does notappear on most maps, the Earth's Circumference is underestimated by 20-30% andthe size of Asia greatly exaggerated, and a number of important geographicalfeatures (India, Ceylon, the Malaysian Peninsula and Indonesia) are incorrectly placedwell South of the Equator. An appendix discusses More's knowledge of Macrobius. "

Contains: Historical Context,

Author: Romuald I. Lakowski

From: Early Modern Literary Studies 5.2 (September, 1999):5.1-19

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Other (non-critical) sites about Utopia

Summary of Utopia, Book I and Conclusion to Book II

http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/work/chapters/utopsum.html

This offers some summaries of material in Utopia.

Contains: Plot Summary

Author: Romuald Ian Lakowski

From: Interactive Early Modern Literary Studies

Author: Romuald Ian Lakowski

From: Interactive Early Modern Literary Studies

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