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Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook offers three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies.

"Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance, attracting enormous amount of critical attention since its first publication in Latin in 1516. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays by experts in their respective fields brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about More's book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its utopian legacies, and its vernacular translations. Each chapter provides a fresh and accessible contribution to established and ongoing debates about More's book, making for an integrated approach to its genesis, vernacularisation, and afterlives that will appeal to academics, students, and general readers. Especially innovative is how the Handbook allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The editors provide a full introduction plus an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text"--