Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Aristopia> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 82 of
82
with 100 triples per page.
- Aristopia abstract "Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general).Though part of the major wave utopian and dystopian literature that distinguished the final decades of the nineteenth century, Holford's book reverses the normal stance of utopian projection: instead of imagining a better society at a future time or in a far-off place, he supposes that the founding of the United States occurred under different conditions and follows its development forward to a superior society in his own day.In Aristopia (Greek for \"the best place\"), Ralph Morton, an early settler in Virginia, discovers a reef made of solid gold. He cannily uses his wealth to build a planned society, based on the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, with innovations and adaptations of his own. In Aristopia, all the land is owned by the government, and only leased to businesses and private citizens. Large-scale trade is also monoplized by the state, and inherited wealth is limited. Morton welcomes productive refugees from European conflicts — Huguenots, Irish fugitives from Cromwell's wars, and northern Italian and Swiss artisans.The colony prospers, buys more land from the Indians, and spreads westward. Morton dies at the age of 100; his descendants and successors carry his policies forward.The Aristopians support the American Revolution, and on their own initiative conquer Canada. Aristopia comes to dominate the new nation, eventually ruling all of North America north of Mexico.Holford loads his description of Aristopia with satirical remedies for what he saw as contemporary problems and circumstances. In Aristopian jurisprudence, for example, the Court for Assessing the Value of Abstract Words and Phrases polices the language to prevent abuses; it is the largest and busiest function in the Palace of Justice.The English playwright Henry Arthur Jones was taken with the idea of Aristopia, and used it in his own polemical writings, as in his \"The Tax-Wise Men of Aristopia\" and his My Dear Wells.Holford was not the first writer in English to employ the term \"Aristopia.\" The eighteenth-century freethinker John Fransham (1730–1810) left a posthumous manuscript titled Memorablilia Classica, which contains a piece called \"The Code of Aristopia, or Scheme for a Perfect Government.\"".
- Aristopia author Castello_Holford.
- Aristopia country United_States.
- Aristopia language English_language.
- Aristopia literaryGenre Alternate_history.
- Aristopia literaryGenre Speculative_fiction.
- Aristopia literaryGenre Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction.
- Aristopia mediaType Hardcover.
- Aristopia numberOfPages "234".
- Aristopia publisher Arena_Publishing_Co..
- Aristopia wikiPageID "7406938".
- Aristopia wikiPageLength "4578".
- Aristopia wikiPageOutDegree "33".
- Aristopia wikiPageRevisionID "706800237".
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink 1895_in_literature.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Alternate_history.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink American_Revolution.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Arena_Publishing_Co..
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Castello_Holford.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Category:1895_novels.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Alternate_history_novels.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Utopian_novels.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Freethought.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Gold.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Greek_language.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Hardcover.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Arthur_Jones.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Huguenot.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Irish_people.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink John_Fransham.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Native_Americans_in_the_United_States.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Oliver_Cromwell.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Speculative_fiction.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Thomas_More.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Utopia.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLink Virginia.
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLinkText "Aristopia".
- Aristopia wikiPageWikiLinkText "Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World".
- Aristopia author Castello_Holford.
- Aristopia author "Castello Newton HOLFORD".
- Aristopia country United_States.
- Aristopia genre Alternate_history.
- Aristopia genre Speculative_fiction.
- Aristopia genre Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction.
- Aristopia language English_language.
- Aristopia mediaType "Print".
- Aristopia name "Aristopia".
- Aristopia pages "234".
- Aristopia pubDate "1895".
- Aristopia publisher Arena_Publishing_Co..
- Aristopia title "Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World".
- Aristopia wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_book.
- Aristopia wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Librivox_book.
- Aristopia wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Aristopia subject Category:1895_novels.
- Aristopia subject Category:Alternate_history_novels.
- Aristopia subject Category:Utopian_novels.
- Aristopia hypernym Novel.
- Aristopia type Book.
- Aristopia type Work.
- Aristopia type WrittenWork.
- Aristopia type Book.
- Aristopia type Book.
- Aristopia type Book.
- Aristopia type CreativeWork.
- Aristopia type Thing.
- Aristopia type Q386724.
- Aristopia type Q571.
- Aristopia comment "Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general).Though part of the major wave utopian and dystopian literature that distinguished the final decades of the nineteenth century, Holford's book reverses the normal stance of utopian projection: instead of imagining a better society at a future time or in a far-off place, he supposes that the founding of the United States occurred under different conditions and follows its development forward to a superior society in his own day.In Aristopia (Greek for \"the best place\"), Ralph Morton, an early settler in Virginia, discovers a reef made of solid gold. ".
- Aristopia label "Aristopia".
- Aristopia sameAs Q4791066.
- Aristopia sameAs m.0260r06.
- Aristopia sameAs Q4791066.
- Aristopia wasDerivedFrom Aristopia?oldid=706800237.
- Aristopia isPrimaryTopicOf Aristopia.
- Aristopia name "Aristopia".