Professor Richard Scholar's Outputs (2)

Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France (2023)
Book Chapter
Scholar, R. (2023). Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France. In C. Shrank, & P. Withington (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More’s Utopia. Oxford University Press

Inventing Utopia in early modern France invariably meant, in some way or other, translating the text. This was a complex process activating the full range of meanings that French in the period lent to the verb traduire: it involved transportation, ap... Read More about Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France.

Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: reading More with Marin (2023)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2023). Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: reading More with Marin. Early Modern French Studies, 45(1), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2200410

How do early modern utopias imagine space? In his 1973 study, Utopiques: jeux d’espaces, Louis Marin defines Utopia as the organization of space in a discourse that finds its expression in specific texts from More’s onwards. Utopia, as a no-place, is... Read More about Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: reading More with Marin.