Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century V. I. Arnold Liza Gardner Walsh

Liza Gardner Walsh

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Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century V. I. Arnold Liza Gardner WalshNo human society has ever been perfect, a fact that has led thinkers as far back as Plato and St. Augustine to conceive of utopias both as a fanciful means of escape from an imperfect reality and as a useful tool with which to design improvements upon it. The most studied utopias have been proposed by men, but during the eighteenth century a group of reform oriented female novelists put forth a series of work that expressed their views of, and their