The utopia reader / edited by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent.
Claeys, Gregory.; Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940-
1999
PN6071.U85 U88 1999 (Mapit)
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Title The utopia reader / edited by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent.
ISBN 0814715710 (pbk.)
9780814715710 (pbk.)
0814715702 (cloth)
9780814715703 (cloth)
Imprint New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
Language English
Description xiii, 421 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number PN6071.U85 U88 1999
Summary Utopian literature has given voice to the hopes and fears of the human race from its earliest days to the present. The only single-volume anthology of its kind, The Utopia Reader encompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing-from the Old Testament and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's twentieth century dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, through to the present day. The editors of this definitive collection demonstrate the various ways in which utopias have been used throughout history as veiled criticism of existing conditions and how peoples excluded from the dominant discourse-such as women and minorities-have used the form to imagine empowering alternatives to present circumstances. An engaging tour through the dissident, polemic, and satirical tradition of utopian writing, The Utopia Reader ultimately provides a telling portrait of civilization's persistent need to imagine and construct ideal societies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author Claeys, Gregory.
Sargent, Lyman Tower, 1940-
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Introduction
Utopianism before Thomas More
The golden age
Works and days / Hesiod
Metamorphosis / Ovid
Fourth eclogue / Vergil
Earthly paradises
The garden of eden
Genesis
The elysian fields
Fragments / Pindar
Islands of the blest
Epode 16 / Horace
The middle ages
Eden
Dracontius
The land of prester John
The lawgivers
Solon
Lycurgus
Utopias and utopian satires
Republic / Plato
Ecclesiazusae / Aristophanes
The prophets
Isaiah
Hellenistic utopias
Heliopolis / Iambulus
Saturnalia
Saturnalia / Lucian
The millennium
The revelation of St. John
Il Baruch
Monasticism
The rule of St. Benedict
The rule of St. Francis
The cockaigne
Telecleides
Cockaigne
The sixteenth century
Utopia / Thomas More
The abbey of Theleme / François Rabelais
Of the cannibals / Michel de Montaigne
The seventeenth century
Mundus alter et idem / Joseph Hall
The tempest / William Shakespeare
The city of the sun / Tommaso Campanella
New Atlantis / Francis Bacon
The law of freedom in a platform / Gerrard Winstanley
The inventory of judgements commonwealth / Margaret Cavendish
The commonwealth of oceana / James Harrington
The eighteenth century
Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift
Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred / Louis Sébastien Mercier
L'andrographe / Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne
Enquiry concerning political justice / William Godwin
Greenfield Hill / Timothy Dwight
Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind / Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet
The constitution of spensonia / Thomas Spence
The nineteenth century
Communal societies as utopias
Shakers
The Shaker compendium / Frederick William Evans
The millennial laws
Shaker covenant
Amana or the community of true inspiration
The twenty-one rules
Oneida
System of criticism
Selections describing the phalanstery / Charles Fourier
American Fourierism
Association / Albert Brisbane
Sketch of a new political system / Charles Henri de Saint-Simon
The paradise within reach of all men / John Adolphus Etzler
The book of the new moral world / Robert Owen
Voyage to icaria / Étienne Cabet
The communist manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Erewhon / Samuel Butler
Looking backward: 2000-1887 / Edward Bellamy
News from nowhere / William Morris
Caesar's column / Ignatius Donnelly
A traveler from altruria / William Dean Howells
The twentieth century
A modern utopia / H.G. Wells
Herland / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We / Yvgeni Zamiatin
Swastika night / Katherine Burdekin
Brave new world / Aldous Huxley
Brave new world revisited
Darkness and the light / Olaf Stapledon
Walden two / B.F. Skinner
"Walden two revisited"
Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell
"The day before the revolution" / Ursula K. LeGuin.

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