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" The utopia reader / "
edited by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent
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701054
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b523243
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The utopia reader /\ edited by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent
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New York :: New York University Press,, c1999
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xiii, 421 p. ;; 24 cm
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0814715702
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: 0814715710 (pbk.)
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: 9780814715703 (cloth)
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: 9780814715710 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references
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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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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
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Utopias
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Utopias in literature
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Claeys, Gregory
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Sargent, Lyman Tower,1940-
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