Joshua Barnes's Gerania
A Diminutive Utopia of Hospitality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6011285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Artur Blaim (0000-0003-3068-9403, corresponding author), Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim, Ludmiła Gruszewska‐Blaim (0000-0002-9230-6917) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 366-376 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/utopianstudies.31.2.0366 |
| OpenAlex | W3092616632 |
| Language | EN |
Focusing on the broadly conceived principle of hospitality, the essay offers an analysis of Joshua Barnes's Gerania, a highly original but little-studied late seventeenth-century utopia set in India and featuring the Pygmies as utopians and Homer as their lawgiver. It is argued that Barnes's utopia offers a radical alternative to the policy of closure and isolation adopted in early modern utopian commonwealths. Its peculiar construction results in the unique openness of the narrator's discourse to an alien word and of the ideal world to outsiders, their outlandish beliefs, rules and artifacts
Aesthetics · Alien · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Hospitality · Literature · Openness to experience · Political science · Sociology · Utopia · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |