Founding Fictions: Early Modern Utopias and Novels

Week 5

Tutor: Mark Knights

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Further reading

Charles W. J. Withers, ‘Disguise—Trust and Truth in Travel Writing’, Terræ incognitæ, 53.1 (2021) 48-64.

Leonard Davis, Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (1983).

D Eilon, Faction’s Fictions: Ideological Closure in Swift’s Satire (1991).

Howard Erskine-Hill, ‘Two-Fold Vision in C18th Writing’ English Literary History (1997).

Kate Loveman, Reading Fictions, 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (Ashgate Publishing, 2008).

Johannes Müller and Michiel van Groesen (eds.), Far From the Truth : Distance, Information, and Credibility in the Early Modern World (Hakluyt Society studies in the history of travel, London: Routledge, 2024)