Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index
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Introduction: The utopian mode in dialogue -- Copious discourse: utopia and dialogue -- "Godly conversation": The reformation of utopia -- "It is the man who speaks with God who knows more": education and the decline of dialogue in Christianopolis and the city of the sun -- "Private conference" and "public affairs": natural philosophy, dialogue and the ideal society in New Atlantis -- "Counsel and endevors": millennium and reform in the 1640s -- "Instructive discourses": the proliferation and rejection of utopia in the 1640s and beyond
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Literature-- History and criticism-- Early modern, 1500-1700