Reading Utopia in the Reformation of Punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10414545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Ritger (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1225-1268 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rqx.2019.375 |
| OpenAlex | W3002468121 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 57 |
Recent scholarship on the first English translation of Thomas More's “Utopia” has asked how its publication in the 1550s fits with the larger agenda of Protestant Reformers who promoted the book alongside their other civic projects. This article argues that the initiatives of greatest relevance were the new house of correction at Bridewell (est. 1553–57) and the infamous Vagrancy Act of 1547–49, which failed to introduce slavery as a punishment in English law. Evidence of user interactions with the 1550s editions, including indexing, annotation, commonplacing, and quotation, helps to analyze how the text's complicated ideas about penal labor were received and reemphasized by early English readers
Art · Literature · Political science · Protestantism · Punishment (psychology · Reading (process · Relevance (law · Scholarship · Sociology · Utopia · Vagrancy · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Law · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England
Four Centuries of Prison History
Base Slavery and Roman Yoke
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
On the Parish?
The Pursuit of Stability
Citizen Thomas More and His Utopia.
More's Utopia
The Making and Marketing of Tottel’s Miscellany, 1557
The Literary Culture of the Reformation
Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700
Reform and Reformation
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
More's Utopia. The Biography of an Idea.
Reading Utopia
The difference theology makes
More’s Utopia As Commonplaced in Edward Pudsey’s “Booke” (Circa 1600)
Puns, Paradoxes, and Heuristic Inquiry The “ De Servis ” Section of More’s Utopia
The Meaning of More's Utopia
Lost Londons
Slaves and Englishmen
Crime, Gender, and Sexuality in Criminal Prosecutions
On the Parish? The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England c. 1550-1750
Masterless Men
Managing Readers
Reform and Reformation in England, 1509-1558
The pursuit of stability. Social relations in Elizabethan London
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Utopia through Italian Eyes
The Prison Experience
War and Slavery in More's Utopia
The History of Parliament
The Literary Culture of the Reformation
Bound for America
Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation
Slavery and Social Death
Utopia and Civic Politics in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London
The Prison and the Factory (40TH Anniversary Edition)
Institutions of confinement
Renaissance self-fashioning
Archaeologies of the future
The Renaissance Utopia
Studied for Action
Slavery and Protector Somerset; the Vagrancy Act of 1547
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |