Claeys G. Sargent L.T. (eds.) The Utopia Reader

London; New York: New York University Press, 1999 — 434 p. — ISBN10: 0814715710; ISBN13: 978-0814715710.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.Utopianism before Thomas MoreThe Golden Age
Hesiod, Works and Days
Ovid, Metamorphosis
Vergil, Fourth Eclogue
Earthly Paradises
The Garden of Eden
Genesis
The Elysian Fields
Pindar, Fragments
Islands of the Blest
Horace, Epode 16
The Middle Ages
Eden
Dracontius
The Land of Prester John
The Lawgivers
Solon
Lycurgus
Utopias and Utopian Satires
Plato, Republic
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae
The Prophets
Isaiah
Hellenistic Utopias
Iambulus, Heliopolis
Saturnalia
Lucian, Saturnalia
The Millennium
The Revelation of St. John
II Baruch
Monasticism
The Rule of St. Benedict
The Rule of St. Francis
The Cockaigne
Telecleides
CockaigneThe Sixteenth CenturyThomas More, Utopia
François Rabelais, The Abbey of Theleme
Michel de Montaigne, Of the CannibalsThe Seventeenth CenturyJoseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun
Francis Bacon, New Atlantis
Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform
Margaret Cavendish, The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth
James Harrington, The Commonwealth of OceanaThe Eighteenth CenturyJonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Louis Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the Year
Two Thousand Five Hundred
Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, L’andrographe
William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill
Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
Thomas Spence, The Constitution of SpensoniaThe Nineteenth CenturyCommunal Societies as Utopias
Shakers
Frederick William Evans, The Shaker Compendium
The Millennial Laws
Shaker Covenant
Amana or the Community of True Inspiration
The Twenty-One Rules
Oneida
System of Criticism
Charles Fourier, Selections Describing the Phalanstery
American Fourierism
Albert Brisbane, Association
Charles Henri de Saint-Simon, Sketch of a New Political System
John Adolphus Etzler, The Paradise within Reach of All Men
Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World
Étienne Cabet, Voyage to Icaria
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000–1887
William Morris, News from Nowhere
Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar’s Column
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from AltruriaThe Twentieth CenturyH. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Yvgeni Zamiatin, We
Katherine Burdekin, Swastika Night
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Brave New World Revisited
Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light
B. F. Skinner, Walden Two
“Walden Two Revisited”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Day before the Revolution”