Eliza Fowler Haywood: Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia
Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia
Buch
- Herausgeber: Sina Menke
- De Gruyter, 07/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783111149509
- Bestellnummer: 11916979
- Umfang: 230 Seiten
- Gewicht: 390 g
- Maße: 230 x 155 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.7.2024
- Serie: ISSN - 2/1
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Eliza Fowler Haywood (c. 1693-1756) was a prolific writer, widely connected actress and critical philosopher. Besides her contributions to moral philosophy and economics, she provides noteworthy insights into early eighteenth-century English society. Haywood s precise critique of a government ignoring the needs of its most vulnerable citizens remains compelling today.Her two-volume utopian work Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia (1724) is a mythological re-telling of the many problems facing early eighteenth-century England. In the first volume, Haywood discusses the economic and financial crisis brought about by England s South Sea Bubble and interweaves it with her philosophical argument of genuine love and the corruption wrought by greed and lust.
The second volume will be published in 2025.
