- L’utopia e la città ideale
- Giandomenico Amendola
Romanzi e utopie
- Giandomenico Amendola
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.12
The chapter explores the intersection of utopian thought and literary fiction in the 18th century. Swift's Gulliver's Travels offers biting satire of science, politics and reason, while Defoe's Robinson Crusoe reframes utopia as bourgeois self-reliance. From Condorcet's vision of infinite human progress to Cabet's Icaria, the chapter traces how novels became the privileged vehicle for utopian and dystopian imagination.
- Keywords:
- Swift,
- Defoe,
- utopian novel,
- satire,
- Enlightenment fiction,
University of Florence, Italy
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Romanzi e utopie
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4.12
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
L’utopia e la città ideale
Book Subtitle
Sogni, paure, desideri
Authors
Giandomenico Amendola
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
120
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0985-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0984-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0985-4
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0986-1
Series Title
People_Places_Architecture
Series ISSN
2975-0415
Series E-ISSN
2975-027X