Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature

Dan Mills has an MA and PhD in English from Georgia State University, where he focused his studies on early modern English literature and theory and wrote his dissertation on early modern English utopian literature. He recently completed an MA in Latin at the University of Georgia. In addition to early modern English literature and theory, his research interests include bibliography and print culture, translation studies, and neo-Latin.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTORY MATTERSChapter 1Introducing UtopiaChapter 2Utopian Studies, Modern and Early Modern: A Nice Place to VisitChapter 3Lacan avec Foucault Chapter 4"If Only this were some day possible": The Execration, Consecration, and Catechization of Humanist Optimism in Thomas More’s UtopiaSECTION 2: the UTOPIAN symbolicChapter 5Stealth Self on the Shelf: Surveillance, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, and Symbolic SubjectivityChapter 6Power is Knowledge: Surveillance, Biopower and Linguistic Subjectivity in John Eliot’s Christian CommonwealthChapter 7Linguistic Subjectivity and Linguistic Utopia in Francis Lodwick’s A Country not NamedSECTION 3: the UTOPIAN imaginaryChapter 8"Out of the Authority of the Arabians": Orientalism and Utopian Intellectual History in Robert Burton’s Anatomy of MelancholyChapter 9Gerrard Winstanley’s Utopian MissionChapter 10Margaret Cavendish’s Book of Imaginary Beings: Philosophical Animals and Physiognomic Philosophers in The Blazing WorldSECTION 4: The Three UTOPIAN realsChapter 11Joseph Hall’s Mundus alter et idem and Geo-satirical Indictment of the English CrownChapter 12James Harrington’s Commonwealth of Oceana and Typographical UtopiaChapter 13Pornographic Miscegenation and Dystopic Apocalypse in Henry Neville's Isle of PinesChapter 14: CONCLUSIONS AND AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM BIBLIOGRAPHY