The Prefatory/Postscript Letters to St. Thomas More’s <em>Utopia</em>: The Culture of ‘Seeing’ as a Reality-Conferring Strategy
The article discusses the significance of on-the-spot observation and eye witnessing as powerful scientific tools for establishing the real in the early sixteenth century. In particular, I argue that the simulation of such tools in the paratextual material to Utopia, especially the prefatory/postscr...
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Firenze University Press
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7016 |