Utopia.
Title:
Utopia.
Author:
Coverley, Merlin.
ISBN:
9781842438756
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (177 pages)
Series:
Pocket Essential series
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Birth of Utopia: The Golden Age -- The Myth of Atlantis -- The Golden Age -- Lycurgus and the Spartans -- Plato, The Republic -- St Augustine, City of God -- More, Utopia, and the Early Modern Era -- Thomas More, Utopia -- Michel de Montaigne, On Cannibals -- Tommaso Campanella, City of the Sun -- Francis Bacon, New Atlantis -- Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World -- Henry Neville, The Isle of Pines -- Shipwrecked: Crusoe and the Imaginary Voyage -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe -- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels -- Voltaire, Candide -- Samuel Johnson, Rasselas -- De Bougainville, Voyage Around the World -- Socialism and Utopia -- Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon -- Charles Fourier -- Robert Owen, A New View of Society -- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, the Communist Manifesto -- Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward -- William Morris, News from Nowhere -- Totalitarian Nightmares -- HG Wells, A Modern Utopia -- Jack London, The Iron Heel -- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We -- Katherine Burdekin, Swastika Night -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World -- George Orwell, 1984 -- The Cold War to the Present -- Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano -- Derek Raymond, A State of Denmark -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed -- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time -- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale -- JG Ballard, Kingdom Come -- Afterword: The Death of Utopia? -- Further Reading -- Websites -- Index.
Abstract:
For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal societyfrom Plato to H. G. Wells, from Cloudcuckooland to Shangri-La. The utopian impulse has generated a vast body of work, encompassing philosophy and political theory, classical literature, and science fiction; yet these utopian dreams have often turned to nightmare, as utopia gives way to its dark reflection, dystopia. Taking the reader on a journey through these imaginary worlds, this work charts the progress of utopian ideas from their origins within the classical world to the rebirth of utopian ideals in the Middle Ages. Later we see the emergence of socialist and feminist ideas; while the 20th century was to be dominated by expressions of totalitarian oppression. Today it is claimed that we are witnessing the death of utopia, as increasingly the ideals that give rise to them are undermined or dismissed. These arguments are explored and evaluated here, as are contemporary examples of utopian thought used to demonstrate the enduring relevance of the utopian tradition.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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