Article: Writing the New World: Imaginary Voyages and Utopias of the Great Southern Land.

Where is the ideal commonwealth to be found? In his prefatory letter to Utopia, Thomas More slyly reminded Peter Gilles that they had forgotten to ask, and Hythloday to tell them, "in what part of the new world Utopia is situate." Today critics are still asking, usually with greater seriousness than More, for utopia's "situation."

Through the eighteenth century, according to David Fausett's study, the answer for Europeans was the great southern land. In the early modern era, the West persistently located its vision of utopia in "terra australis incognita," the legendary lands of the southern hemisphere. The mysteriousness of austral lands enabled an original and ...

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