Utopia Reader

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ISBN: 9780814715703

ISBN-10: 0814715702

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Edition: 1999

Authors: Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent

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"The Utopia Readeris a timely and provocative collection of utopia texts ... and an excellent introduction to the vast field of utopianism." Moreana 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 1. Introduction 1 2. Utopianism before Thomas More 6 The Golden Age 7 Hesiod, Works and Days 7 Ovid, Metamorphosis 8 Vergil, Fourth Eclogue 8 Earthly Paradises 9 The Garden of Eden 9 Genesis 9 The Elysian Fields 12 Pindar, Fragments 12 Islands of the Blest 12 Horace, Epode 16 12 The Middle Ages 13 Eden 13 Dracontius 13 The Land of Prester John 14 The Lawgivers 15 Solon 15 Lycurgus 16 Utopias and Utopian Satires 27 Plato, Republic 27 Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 56 The Prophets 59 Isaiah 59 Hellenistic Utopias 60 Iambulus, Heliopolis 60 Saturnalia 64 Lucian, Saturnalia 64 The Millennium 66 The Revelation of St. John 67 II Baruch 67 Monasticism 68 The Rule of St. Benedict 68 The Rule of St. Francis 70 The Cockaigne 71 Telecleides 71 Cockaigne 71 3. The Sixteenth Century 77 Thomas More, Utopia 77 Francois Rabelais, The Abbey of Theleme 94 Michel de Montaigne, Of the Cannibals 99 4. The Seventeenth Century 104 Joseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem 104 William Shakespeare, The Tempest 105 Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun 106 Francis Bacon, New Atlantis 118 Gerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform 126 Margaret Cavendish, The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth 128 James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana 137 5. The Eighteenth Century 141 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 141 Louis Sebastien Mercier, Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred 152 Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, L'andrographe 163 William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 170 Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill 175 Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Pictureof the Progress of the Human Mind 176 Thomas Spence, The Constitution of Spensonia 180 6. The Nineteenth Century 182 Communal Societies as Utopias 182 Shakers 182 Frederick William Evans, The Shaker Compendium 183 The Millennial Laws 183 Shaker Covenant 185 Amana or the Community of True Inspiration 186 The Twenty-One Rules 186 Oneida 190 System of Criticism 191 Charles Fourier, Selections Describing the Phalanstery 192 American Fourierism 199 Albert Brisbane, Association 200 Charles Henri de Saint-Simon, Sketch of a New Political System 202 John Adolphus Etzler, The Paradise within Reach of All Men 206 Robert Owen, The Book of the New Moral World 207 tienne Cabet, Voyage to Icaria 219 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 227 Samuel Butler, Erewhon 229 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000?1887 240 William Morris, News from Nowhere 273 Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column 292 William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria 301 7. The Twentieth Century 312 H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopi

Book details

List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 434
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584

Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written and edited numerous books, including Searching for Utopia, The Utopia Reader, and The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature.



Preface


Acknowledgements



Introduction



Utopianism before Thomas More


The 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


lambulus, 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


Cockaigne



The Sixteenth Century


Thomas More, Utopia


Francois Rabelais, The Abbey of Theleme


Michel de Montaigne, Of the Cannibals



The Seventeenth Century


Joseph Hall, Mundus alter et idem


William Shakespeare, The Tempest


Tommaso Campanella, The City of the Sun


Francis Bacon, New Atlantis


Gerard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform


Margaret Cavendish, The Inventory of Judgments Commonwealth


James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana



The Eighteenth Century


Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels


Louis Sebastien 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 Spensonia



The Nineteenth Century


Communal 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


Oncida


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


Etienne Cabet, Voyage to lcaria


Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto


Samuel Butler, Erewbon


Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887


William Morris, News from Nowhere


Ignatius Donnelly, Caesar's Column


William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria



The Twentieth Century


H. 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"


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