The Utopia Reader

by Claeys, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780814715710
• ISBN10: 0814715710
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Ingram Book Co

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 Readerencompasses the entire spectrum and history of utopian writing-from the Old Testament and Plato'sRepublic, to Sir Thomas More'sUtopiaand 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 Readerultimately provides a telling portrait of civilization's persistent need to imagine and construct ideal societies.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(5)
Utopianism before Thomas More	6	(71)
The Golden Age	7	(2)
Hesiod, Works and Days	7	(1)
Ovid, Metamorphosis	8	(1)
Vergil, Fourth Eclogue	8	(1)
Earthly Paradises	9	(4)
The Garden of Eden	9	(1)
Genesis	9	(3)
The Elysian Fields	12	(1)
Pindar, Fragments	12	(1)
Islands of the Blest	12	(1)
Horace, Epode 16	12	(1)
The Middle Ages	13	(2)
Eden	13	(1)
Dracontius	13	(1)
The Land of Prester John	14	(1)
The Lawgivers	15	(12)
Solon	15	(1)
Lycurgus	16	(11)
Utopias and Utopian Satires	27	(39)
Plato, Republic	27	(29)
Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae	56	(3)
The Prophets	59	(1)
Isaiah	59	(1)
Hellenistic Utopias	60	(1)
Iambulus, Heliopolis	60	(4)
Saturnalia	64	(1)
Lucian, Saturnalia	64	(2)
The Millennium	66	(2)
The Revelation of St. John	67	(1)
II Baruch	67	(1)
Monasticism	68	(3)
The Rule of St. Benedict	68	(2)
The Rule of St. Francis	70	(1)
The Cockaigne	71	(6)
Telecleides	71	(1)
Cockaigne	71	(6)
The Sixteenth Century	77	(27)
Utopia	77	(17)
Thomas More
The Abbey of Theleme	94	(5)
Francois Rabelais
Of the Cannibals	99	(5)
Michel de Montaigne
The Seventeenth Century	104	(37)
Mundus alter et idem	104	(1)
Joseph Hall
The Tempest	105	(36)
William Shakespeare
The City of the Sun	106	(12)
Tommaso Campanella
New Atlantis	118	(8)
Francis Bacon
The Law of Freedom in a Platform	126	(2)
Gerrard Winstanley
The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth	128	(9)
Margaret Cavendish
The Commonwealth of Oceana	137	(4)
James Harrington
The Eighteenth Century	141	(41)
Gulliver's Travels	141	(11)
Jonathan Swift
Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred	152	(11)
Louis Sebastien Mercier
L'andrographe	163	(7)
Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	170	(5)
William Godwin
Greenfield Hill	175	(1)
Timothy Dwight
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind	176	(4)
Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet
The Constitution of Spensonia	180	(2)
Thomas Spence
The Nineteenth Century	182	(130)
Communal Societies as Utopias	182	(8)
Shakers	182	(1)
The Shaker Compendium	183	(1)
Frederick William Evans
The Millennial Laws	183	(2)
Shaker Covenant	185	(1)
Amana or the Community of True Inspiration	186	(1)
The Twenty-One Rules	186	(4)
Oneida	190	(2)
System of Criticism	191	(1)
Selections Describing the Phalanstery	192	(10)
Charles Fourier
American Fourierism	199	(1)
Association	200	(2)
Albert Brisbane
Sketch of a New Political System	202	(4)
Charles Henri de Saint-Simon
The Paradise within Reach of All Men	206	(1)
John Adolphus Etzler
The Book of the New Moral World	207	(12)
Robert Owen
Voyage to Icaria	219	(8)
Etienne Cabet
The Communist Manifesto	227	(2)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Erewhon	229	(11)
Samuel Butler
Looking Backward: 2000--1887	240	(33)
Edward Bellamy
News from Nowhere	273	(19)
William Morris
Caesar's Column	292	(9)
Ignatius Donnelly
A Traveler from Altruria	301	(11)
William Dean Howells
The Twentieth Century	312	(109)
A Modern Utopia	312	(7)
H. G. Wells
Herland	319	(10)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We	329	(15)
Yvgeni Zamiatin
Swastika Night	344	(3)
Katherine Burdekin
Brave New World	347	(16)
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited	362	(1)
Darkness and the Light	363	(9)
Olaf Stapledon
Walden Two	372	(26)
B. F. Skinner
``Walden Two Revisited''	390	(8)
Nineteen Eighty-Four	398	(9)
George Orwell
``The Day before the Revolution''	407	(14)
Ursula K. Le Guin
About the Editors	421