Utopia

by More, Thomas; Adams, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780393961454
• ISBN10: 0393961451
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Robert M. Adams's celebrated translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	vii	(4)
Translator's Note	xi
The Text of Utopia	1	(86)
Backgrounds	87	(48)
Ovid
[The Golden Age]	89	(2)
Plato
[The Guardians]	91	(1)
The Acts of the Apostles	92	(2)
[The Community of Love]	93	(1)
[The Community of Fear	93	(1)
Lucian of Samosata [Saturn's Age]	94	(2)
St. Ambrose
Naboth's Vineyard	96	(2)
St. Benedict
Monastic Rules	98	(1)
Chapter 33	98	(1)
Chapter 34	98	(1)
Cokayne	99	(2)
Tasso
Chorus from Act 2 of Aminta	101	(3)
Amerigo Vespucci
The First Voyage	104	(4)
THE HUMANIST CIRCLE: LETTERS	108	(27)
Thomas More to Peter Giles	109	(3)
Peter Giles to Jerome Busleiden	112	(3)
Jerome Busleiden to Thomas More	115	(2)
Guillaume Bude to Thomas Lupset	117	(5)
Erasmus of Rotterdam to John Froben	122	(1)
Thomas More to Peter Giles	123	(2)
Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten	125	(10)
Criticism	135	(124)
R.W. Chambers
The Meaning of Utopia	137	(10)
Utopia and the Problems of 1516	142	(5)
J.H. Hexter
The Roots of Utopia and All Evil	147	(7)
Alistair Fox
[An Intricate, Intimate Compromise]	154	(15)
Edward L. Surtz
Humanism and Communism	169	(12)
Robert C. Elliott
The Shape of Utopia	181	(14)
G.R. Elton
The Real Thomas More?	195	(10)
Northrop Frye
Varieties of Literary Utopias	205	(6)
Robert M. Adams
Paradise a la Mode	211	(6)
INSIGHTS	217	(22)
C.S. Lewis
[A Jolly Invention]	217	(3)
J.W. Allen
[A Sad and Witty Book]	220	(4)
Elizabeth McCutcheon
Denying the Contrary: More's Use of Litotes in the Utopia	224	(5)
Edward Bellamy
From Looking Backward	229	(10)
ANTI-UTOPIAS	239	(20)
Aldous Huxley
From Brave New World	239	(10)
B.F. Skinner
From Walden Two	249	(10)
Suggestions for Further Reading	259