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Article: Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community.(Review)

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Hugh Jenkins. Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998. 290 pp. $48.00.

IN THE STORY OF UTOPIAS, Lewis Mumford dedicates a large section of his study to social myths which spring from a collective consciousness as "collective utopias" (193). One such important and influential utopia is the "renascence idolum of the Country House" (201). The rich Latin cultural heritage of the country house myth ranges from Martial, Horace, Statius, Virgil's Georgics to Pliny's Epistel II, 6 and preempts, in its juxtaposition of the villa urbana and the villa rustica the early modern debate around the ...

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