Gerania (book) explained

Gerania (subtitled: Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies) is a 1675 book by Joshua Barnes. The work falls into the utopian socialism genre. It is set in India, with a race of pygmies living within a communitarian utopia, with Homer as their "lawgiver". In contrast with the policy of closure and occlusion common to the movement, Barnes' pygmy utopia is open and congenial, affable to outsiders.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian-studies/article/31/2/366/197756/Joshua-Barnes-s-Gerania-A-Diminutive-Utopia-of SPC
  2. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B17502.0001.001?view=toc UMICH