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Contents Acknowledgments | ix 1. Introduction Negotiating Utopia | 1 2. Bell in Campo and The Female Academy (1662) Female Wit in the “Theatre of Warr” | 44 3. The Blazing World (1666) “Nature tends to Unity” | 83 4. The Convent of Pleasure (1668) Cross-gendering Negotiation | 111 5. Transitions | 144 6. A Voyage to the Isle of Love (1684) and Lycidus (1688) A “Truce” with “Unhappy Eyes” | 152 7. “The Golden Age” (1684) Feminized Reciprocity as Social Model | 188 8. The Emperor of the Moon (1687) Common Sense, Natural Vision, and Tempered Utopianism | 207 9. Oroonoko (1688) The Crisis of Ideologies in Restoration England | 227 10. The Widow Ranter (1689) and The Rover (1677) Honor in the New World | 250 11. Conclusion | 286 viii | Contents Appendix A | 299 Appendix B | 303 Works Cited | 305 Index | 325 ...

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