{"product_id":"utopia-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393932461","title":"Utopia: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of political action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This Norton Critical Edition is built on the translation that Robert M. Adams created for it in 1975. For the Third Edition, George M. Logan has carefully revised the translation, improving its accuracy while preserving the grace and verve that have made it the most highly regarded modern rendering of More's Renaissance Latin work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Backgrounds\" includes a wide-ranging selection of the major secular and religious texts--from Plato to Amerigo Vespucci--that informed More's thinking, as well as a selection of the responses to his book by members of his own humanist circle and an account by G. R. Elton of the condition of England at the time More wrote.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Criticism\" now offers a more comprehensive survey of modern scholarship, adding excerpts from seminal books by Frederic Seebohm, Karl Kautsky, and Russell Ames, as well as selections from stimulating and influential recent readings by Dominic Baker-Smith and Eric Nelson. In the final section, on \"\u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e's Modern Progeny,\" the opening chapter of Aldous Huxley's \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e is now complemented by excerpts from another great work in the complex tradition of utopian and dystopian fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin's \u003cem\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e. Throughout the Third Edition, the editorial apparatus has been thoroughly revised and updated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An updated Selected Bibliography is also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLogan, George M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge M. Logan\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. Harvard) is a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto and the James Cappon Professor of English Emeritus at Queen's University, Canada, where he was head of the English Department for nine years and an award-winning teacher. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Meaning of More's\u003c\/em\u003e Utopia and principal editor of the Cambridge edition of \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e (Latin and English), editor of the Norton Critical Edition of \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e (3rd edition), More's \u003cem\u003eHistory of King Richard the Third\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Thomas More\u003c\/em\u003e, and coeditor, with Gordon Teskey, of \u003cem\u003eUnfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance\u003c\/em\u003e; he has also written a history of the Indiana University School of Music.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdams, Robert M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRobert M. Adams\u003c\/strong\u003e was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eIkon: John Milton and the Modern Critics\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStrains of Discord\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eProteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Land and Literature of England\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eShakespeare--The Four Romances\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including \u003cem\u003eThe Prince\u003c\/em\u003e by Machiavelli, \u003cem\u003eCandide\u003c\/em\u003e by Voltaire, and \u003cem\u003eThe Praise of Folly and Other Writings\u003c\/em\u003e by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749289034002,"sku":"9780393932461","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da437996-0ca3-4d9f-9ab1-c00be5b436e5.jpg?v=1764075683","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/utopia-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393932461","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}