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Utopian Texts Chronological List of Utopian Texts Note: not all of these texts are necessarily 'utopias' in the strict sense (whether there can be said to be a strict sense of this term is another matter), but they all have elements of the genre - or are used in our course.Several early modern utopian texts can be found in digital reproductions of the original editions on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and/or Gallica.The compilers of the New York Public Library exhibition Utopia: the search for the ideal society in the western world have put together an even more comprehensive bibliography of primary texts, starting at 1516. See also the hardly less comprehensive primary bibliography of the exhibition 'Utopie, la qu^ete de la soci'et'e id'eale en Occident' at the Biblioth`eque nationale de France.AntiquityPLATO (c. 429-347 BCE), Republic (late 370s BCE)LUCIAN (born c. 120 CE), The True HistoryEarly ModernTHOMAS MORE (1478-1535), De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insula Utopia (Louvain, 1516)JOHANN EBERLIN VON G"UNZBURG (c. 1470-1533), New Statuten die Psitacus gebracht hat auss dem Land Wolfaria (Basel, 1521)ANTON FRANCESCO DONI (1513-1574), I Mondi (1552)FRANCESCO PATRIZI (1529-1597), La citt`a felice (Venice, 1553)KASPAR STIBLIN, Commentariolus de eudaemonensium republica (Basel, 1555)FRANCOIS RABELAIS (c.

1495-1553), Oeuvres (Lyon, 1558)LODOVICO AGOSTINI (1534-1590), La repubblica imaginaria (written 1585-90)TOMMASO CAMPANELLA (1568-1639), La citt`a del sole (first Italian version composed 1602; first Latin version published 1623)JOSEPH HALL (1574-1656), Mundus alter et idem ('Frankfurt' [i.e. London], 1605)WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI Part II (c. 1590), Act IV, scene 2, and The Tempest (1611)'I. D. M., GENTILHOMME TOURANGEAU', Histoire du grand et admirable royaume d'Antangil (Saumur, 1616) [On Gallica N101920]JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAE (1586-1654), Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio (Strasbourg, 1619)LODOVICO ZUCCOLO, Dialoghi (Venice, 1625)FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), New Atlantis (London, 1627)'DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR' (i.e. ROBERT BURTON) (1577-1640), The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford, 1632), 'Democritus to the Reader''DOMINGO GONSALES' (i.e. FRANCIS GODWIN) (1562-1633), The Man in the Moone

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Or A discourse of a voyage thither (London, 1638)[GABRIEL PLATTES] (d. 1662), A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria (London, 1641)[SAMUEL GOTT], Novae solymae (London, 1648)GERRARD WINSTANLEY (1609-1676), The Law of Freedom (London, 1652)JAMES HARRINGTON (1611-1677), The Commonwealth of Oceana (London, 1656)ANON., 'Letters from Utopia' in Mercurius Politicus (London, 1659)SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1619-1655), Les estats et empires de la lune (Paris, 1657) and Les estats et empires du soleil (Paris, 1662)MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE (1623?-1673), The Description of a New Blazing World (London, 1666)[HENRY NEVILLE] (1620-1694), The Isle of Pines, or, A late discovery of a fourth island in Terra Australis, Incognita (London, 1668) [Wing N505] and A New and Further Discovery of the Islle of Pines (London, 1668) [Wing N509].JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592-1670), 'Panorthosia', in De rerum humanarum emendatione consultatio catholica (before 1670)[EDWARD HOWARD] (fl. 1669), The Six Days Adventure; Or, the New Utopia (London, 1671)JOSEPH GLANVILL (d. 1680), 'Anti-Fanatical Religion and Free Philosophy. In a Continuation of the New Atlantis', in Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion (London, 1676)GABRIEL De FOIGNY (1630-1692), Les Avantures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Decouverte et le Voyage de la Terre Australe (Geneva, 1676)DENIS VAIRASSE D'ALLAIS (c. 1630-1672), Histoire des S'everambes (Paris, 1677-79)BERNARD le BOVIER de FONTENELLE (1657-1757), Entretiens sue la pluralit'e des mondes (Paris, 1686)MARY ASTELL (1668-1731), A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (London, 1694)FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-F'ENELON (1651-1715), Les Aventures de T'el'emaque (Paris, 1699)'DR.

MERRYMAN' (i.e. EDWARD WARD, attrib.) (1667-1731), The Island of Content; Or, a New Paradise Discovered (London, 1709)[AMBROSE EVANS], The Adventures and Surprizing Deliverances of James Dubourideu and his Wife (London, 1719)SAMUEL BLUNT, A Voyage to Cacklogalliania (London, 1727)'MORRIS WILLIAMS' (i.e. AMBROSE PHILLIPS) (1674/5-1749), The Fortunate Shipwreck, or a Description of New Athens (London, 1720)JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels (London, 1726)'GISANDER' (i.e. JOHANN GOTTFRIED SCHNABEL), Die Insel Felsenburg (Nordhausen, 1731)DAVID HUME (1711-1776), 'Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth', in Political Discourses (Edinburgh, 1752)WILLIAM SMITH (1727-1803), A General Idea of the College of Mirania (New York, 1753)[VOLTAIRE] (1694-1778), Candide, ou l'Optimisme, traduit de l'allemand de M. le docteur Ralph (Geneva, 1759)SAMUEL JOHNSON, The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia (London, 1759)JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778), 'Emile ('`A la Haye' [i.e.

Paris], 1762)'J. VANDER NECK' (i.e. JAMES BURGH) (1714-75), An Account of the First Settlement, Laws, Form of Government, and Police, of the Cessares, a People of South America (London, 1764)ANON., Private Letters from an American in England to his Friends in America (London, 1769)LOUIS S'EBASTIEN MERCIER (1740-1814), L'An 2440 (Paris, 1771)DENIS DIDEROT (1713-1784), Suppl'ement au voyage de Bougainville (1773)[SARAH SCOTT] (d. 1795), Millennium Hall (London, 1778)'PHILELEUTHERUS DEVONIENSIS' (i.e. THOMAS NORTHMORE) (1766-1851), Memoirs of Planetes; Or, a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar (London, 1795)^Anthologies Note: In general you should avoid using anthologies which publish only extracts of works (here marked by an asterisk) for your long essays. In other cases, however, anthologies can provide the best and most scholarly version of texts that are often otherwise hard to find.]Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent, eds., The Utopia Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1999)* John Carey, ed. The Faber Book of Utopias (London: Faber, 1999)Susan Bruce, Three Early Modern Utopias (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)Gregory Claeys, ed.

Restoration and Augustan British Utopias (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999)Gregory Claeys, ed. Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850, 8 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997)Gregory Claeys, ed. Utopias of the British Enlightenment, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)Richard Saage, ed. Politische Utopien der Neuzeit (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1991; repr. Bochum, 2000)* Frank Edward Manuel and Fritzie P.

Manuel, eds., French Utopias: An anthology of ideal societies (New York: Free Press, 1966)^Reference Works Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson, eds., Dictionary of Literary Utopias, (Paris: Honor'e Champion 'Editeur, 2000)R. C. S. Trahair, Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999)Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (London: Granada, 1981)Pierre Versins, Encyclop'edie de l'utopie des voyages extraordinaires et de la science fiction (Lausanne: L'Age d'homme, 1972)^Bibliographies Utopian Literature: A Selective Bibliography [to accompany the New York Public Library Exhibition on Utopias].R. I.

Lakowski, 'A bibliography of Thomas More's Utopia', Early Modern Literary Studies, 1 (1995), 6.1-10Paul G. Haschak, Utopian/Dystopian Literature: A bibliography of literary criticism (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994)Lyman Tower Sargent, 'Contemporary scholarship on utopianism', L'Esprit Cr'eateur, 34 (1994), 123-29Lyman Tower Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985: An annotated, chronological bibliography (New York: Garland, 1988)Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984)Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with a Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978)Michael Winter, Compendium Utopiarum: Typologie und Bibliographie literarischer Utopien, Repertorien zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte 8, vol. I: Von der Antike bis zur deutschen Fr"uhaufkl"arung (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1978)^General Studies Books Christopher Kendrick, Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)Guiseppe Mazzotta, Cosmopoesis: the Renaissance Experiment (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent, eds., Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent, eds., The Utopia Reader (New York: New York University Press, 1999)E. M.

Cioran, History and Utopia, trans. by Richard Howard (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)Marina Leslie, Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998)Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia, preface by Louis Wirth, introd. by Bryan S. Turner, Collected Works of Karl Mannheim 1 (London: Routledge, 1997)Pamela Neville-Sington and David Sington, Paradise Dreamed: How Utopian thinkers have changed the modern world (London: Bloomsbury, 1993)Ruth Levitas, The Concept of Utopia (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1990)A. Owen Aldridge, 'Utopianism in world literature', Tamkang Review, 14 (1984), 11-29Theodore Olsen, Millennialism, Utopianism, and Progress (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982)J.

C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Realistic Utopias: The ideal imaginary societies of the Renaissance, 1516-1630 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)Luigi Firpo, L'utopia nell'eta' della controriforma (Turin: G. Giappichelli, 1977)Melvin J. Lasky, Utopia and Revolution. On the Origins of a Metaphor or Some Illustrations of the Problem of Political Temperament and Intellectual Climate and How Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies Have Been Historically Related (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976)Franco Venturi, Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971)Elisabeth Hansot, Perfection and Progress: Two modes of utopian thought (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974)Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P.

Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979)Raymond Trousson, Voyage au pays de nulle part: histoire litt'eraire de la pens'ee utopique (Brussels: Universit'e de Bruxelles, 1975)Collections of Articles David Lee Rubin, ed. Utopias 1: 16th and 17th Centuries: From La Bo'etie to Veiras, EMF: Studies in Early Modern France 4 (Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 1998)Dominic Baker-Smith and C.C. Barfoot, eds., Between Dream and Nature: Essays on utopia and dystopia, DQR studies in literature 2 / Costerus n.s. 61 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987)Peter Alexander and Roger Gill, eds., Utopias, Colston Papers 35 (London: Duckworth, 1984)Luigi Firpo, ed. Studi sull'Utopia (Florence: Leo S.

Olschki, 1977)J. Ferguson, Utopias of the Classical World (London: Thames and Hudson, 1975)^Topics The Ancient World Moses I. Finley, 'Utopianism Ancient and Modern', in The Use and Abuse of History (London: 1975), pp. 178-92H. B. Norland, 'More's and Elyot's Political Perspectives and their Classical Precedents', Moreana, 40 (2003), 121-42^Architecture Ruth Eaton, Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)built Environment (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002)Anthony Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000)Fernando Mar'ias, 'From the 'ideal city' to real cities: perspectives, chorographies, models, vedute', in The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750, ed.

by Henry A. Millon (London: Thames & Hudson, 1999), pp. 219-40Richard Krautheimer, 'The panels in Urbino, Baltimore and Berlin reconsidered', in The Renaissance From Bruenelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture, ed. by Henry A. Millon and Magnago Lampugnani (Milan: Bompiani, 1994), pp. 233-57Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)Christine Smith, Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, aesthetics, and eloquence 1400-1470 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)Peter Sharratt, 'The imaginary city of Bernard Salomon', in Intellectual Life in Renaissance Lyon, ed. by Philip Ford and Gillian Jondorf (Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 1993), pp. 33-48Anthony Vidler, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and social reform at the end of the Ancien R'egime (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990)Hubertus G"unther, 'Sforzinda: eine Idealstadt der Renaissance', in Alternative Welten in Mittelalter und Renaissance, ed.

by Ludwig Schrader, Studia humaniora 10 (D"usseldorf: Droste, 1988)Leonardo Benevolo, The Architecture of the Renaissance, trans. by Judith Landry, 2 vols (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978)Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia: Design and capitalist development, trans. by Barbara Luigia La Penta (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979)John Archer, 'Puritan Town Planning in New Haven', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 34 (1975), 140-49Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Matrix of Man: An illustrated history of urban environment (London: Pall Mall, 1968)Eugenio Garin, 'La cit'e id'eale de la Renaissance', in Les utopies `a la Renaissance, ed. by W. Lameere (Brussels: Presses Universitaires Belges, 1963)S. Lang, 'The Ideal City from Plato to Howard', Architectural Review, 112 (1952), 90-101Patrick Abercrombie, 'Ideal Cities No.

1: Christianopolis', Town Planning Review, 8 (1920)^Utopian Cartography Romuald I. Lakowski, 'Utopia and the 'Pacific Rim': the cartographical evidence', Early Modern Literary Studies, 5 (1999), 1-19S. Hutchinson, 'Mapping Utopias', Modern Philology, 85 (1987), 170-85C'ecile Kruyfhooft, 'A recent discovery: Utopia by Abraham Ortelius', The Map Collector, 16 (1981), 10-14Websites: Cartographica Neerlandica (Ortelius' map of Utopia)See further the section on Utopian geography.Communism David Seed, Anticipations: Essays on early science fiction and its precursors (Utopianism and Communitarianism) (Syracuse University Press, 1995)Timothy Kenyon, Utopian Communism and Political Thought in Early Modern England (London: Pinter, 1989)Quentin Skinner, 'Sir Thomas More's Utopia and the language of Renaissance humanism', in The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe, ed. by Anthony Pagden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 123-57Antonia McLean, 'Utopian communism and the state', in Humanism and the Rise of Science in England (London: Heinemann, 1972), pp. 56-61Edward L.

Surtz, S.J., The Praise of Pleasure: Philosophy, education, and communism in More's 'Utopia' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957)^Education Primary The following primary texts are particularly pertinent to questions of education:More, Utopia Campanella, City of the Sun Andreae, Christianopolis Plattes, Macaria Rousseau, EmileYou might also be interested in reading Erasmus's Education of a Christian Prince in relation to More's Utopia Secondary Paul A. Olson, The Kingdom of Science: Literary Utopianism and British Education, 1612-1870 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002)Patrick Dooley, 'Leisure and learning in Renaissance utopias', Diogenes, 134 (1986), 19-44Lyman Tower Sargent, 'Utopianism in colonial America', History of Political Thought, 4 (1983), 483-522Mich`ele Le Doeuff, 'Utopias: scholarly', Social Research, 49 (1982), 441-66R. J. P. Jordan, 'A new look at Rousseau as educator', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 182 (1979), 59-72Dagmar Capkov'a, 'The educational plans of J. A.

Comenius in 1646: from a diary sent to English colleagues', History of Education, 7 (1978), 95-103N. E. Tanis, 'Education in John Eliot's Indian utopias 1645-1675', History of Education Quarterly, 10 (1970), 308-28Edward L. Surtz, S.J., The Praise of Pleasure: Philosophy, education, and communism in More's 'Utopia' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957)^Utopia and Enlightenment Richard Saage, 'Der Vertragsdenken und die politischen Utopien der Aufkl"arung', in Vertragsdenken und Utopie: Studien zur politischen Theorie und zur Sozialphilosophie der fr"uhen Neuzeit, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 777 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1989), pp. 67-92Aldo Maffey, L'utopia della ragione, presentazione di Luigi Firpo, Serie Studi / Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici 9 (Naples: Bibliopolis, 1987)Franco Venturi, Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971)^The Family David Colclough, 'Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis', in Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis', ed. by Bronwen Price, Texts in culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp.

60-81Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship and Patronage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)Susan Bruce, 'Virgins of the world and feasts of the family: sex and the social order in two Renaissance utopias', in English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, and Politics, ed. by Neil Rhodes, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 164 (Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997), pp. 125-46--> B. J. Christensen, 'The Family in Utopia' Renasence: Essays on Values in Literature, 44 (1991), 31-44Ralph A. Houlbrooke, The English Family 1450-1700 (London: Longman, 1984)Georges Van Den Abbeele, 'Utopian sexuality and its discontents: exoticism and colonialism in Le Suppl'ement au voyage de Bougainville', L'Esprit Cr'eateur, 24 (1984), 43-52A.

Owen Aldridge, 'Polygamy in early fiction: Henry Neville and Denis Veiras', Publications of the Modern Language Association, 65 (1950), 464-72^Sex and Gender E. L. Bonin, 'Margaret Cavendish's dramatic utopias and the politics of gender', Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 40 (2000), 339-54Christopher Ferns, Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender and Form in Utopian Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999)Susan Bruce, 'Virgins of the world and feasts of the family: sex and the social order in two Renaissance utopias', in English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, and Politics, ed. by Neil Rhodes, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 164 (Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997), pp. 125-46Kate Lilley, 'Blazing Worlds: Seventeenth-century womens' utopian writing', in Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760, ed.

by Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 102-33B. B. Schnorrenberg, ''A Paradise like Eves': three eighteenth-century female utopias', Women's Studies, 9 (1982), 263-73E. Baruch, ''A Natural and Necessary Monster': Women in Utopia', Alternative Futures, 2 (1979), 29-48Judith P. Jones and Sherianne Sellers Seibel, 'Thomas More's feminism: to reform or re-form', in Quincentennial Essays on St. Thomas More: Selected papers from the Thomas More College Conference, ed.

by Michael J. Moore (Boone, NC: Albion, 1978), pp. 67-77A. Owen Aldridge, 'Polygamy in early fiction: Henry Neville and Denis Veiras', Publications of the Modern Language Association, 65 (1950), 464-72Early Modern Feminism Note: there are a range of works written in the period 1516-1789 that debate the position of women in relation to education and society. Although perhaps not strictly 'utopian' in nature, they might make an interesting comparison with such works. Many are published in translation in the University of Chicago Press series 'The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe'.

See especially:Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, The Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex [1529], ed. and trans. by Jr. Albert Rabil (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)Theresa M. Kenney, ed.

'Women are Not Human': An Anonymous Treatise and Responses (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1998)Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein is clearly revealed their nobility and their superiority to men [c. 1592], ed. and trans. by Virginia Cox (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)Anna Maria van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated and Other Writings from her Intellectual Circle, ed. by Joyce L. Irwin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)^Genre [See also the section on Travel Writing.]Ingrid A.

R. de Smet, Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters 1581-1655, Travaux du Grand Si`ecle 11 (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1996)Christine Rees, Utopian Imagination and eighteenth-century Fiction (Harlow: Longman, 1996)Lyman Tower Sargent, 'The Three Faces of Utopianism revisited', Utopian Studies, 5 (1994), 1-37J. C. Davis, 'Formal utopia / informal millenium: the struggle between form and substance as a context for seventeenth-century utopianism', in Utopias and the Millennium, ed. by Krishan Kumar and Stephen Bann (London: Reaktion, 1993), pp.

17-32J. C. Davis, 'Utopianism', in The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700, ed. by J. H.

Burns and Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 329-44Artur Blaim, 'Genre and Change: Evolutionary tendencies in early Utopian fiction', Essays in Poetics, 8 (1983), 74-98Luc Racine, 'Paradise, the Golden Age, the Millennium and Utopia. A Note on the Differentiation of Forms of the Ideal Society', Diogenes, 122 (1983), 119-36Artur Blaim, 'The Text and Genre Pattern: More's Utopia and the structure of early Utopian fiction', Essays in Poetics, 6 (1981), 18-53Darko Suvin, 'Defining the literary genre of Utopia', in Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the poetics and history of a literary genre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 37-62Lyman Tower Sargent, 'Utopia - the problem of definition', Extrapolations, 6 (1975), 137-48Robert C. Elliott, The Shape of Utopia: Studies in a literary genre (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)Northrop Frye, 'Varieties of literary utopias', in Utopias and Utopian Thought, ed.

by Frank Edward Manuel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966), pp. 25-49Robert C. Elliott, 'The Shape of Utopia', Studies in Philology, 30 (1963), 317-44A. R. Heiserman, 'Satire in the Utopia', Publications of the Modern Language Association, 78 (1963), 163-74^Science Fiction Patrick Parrinder, ed. Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, cognition and the politics of science fiction and utopia, Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies 17 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000)J.

Adams, 'Outer Space and the New World in the Imagination of Eighteenth-century Europe', Eighteenth Century Life, 19 (1995), 70-83David Seed, Anticipations: Essays on early science fiction and its precursors (Utopianism and Communitarianism) (Syracuse University Press, 1995)Karl S. Guthke, The Last Frontier: Imagining other worlds, from the Copernican revolution to modern science fiction, trans. by Helen Atkins (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990)^Utopian Geography Frank Lestringant, Mapping the Renaissance World: The geographical imagination in the age of discovery, trans. by David Fausett (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)G. May, 'One way and in both Directions: considerations on imaginary voyages', Diogenes, 152 (1990), 1-18J.

C. Caravaglia, 'I Gesuiti del Paraguay: utopia e realt`a', Rivista storica italiana, 93 (1981), 269-314J. K. Hale, 'A World Elsewhere', in The Age of the Renaissance (London: 1967)See also the sections on cartography and on countries and continents.^History J. K. Graham, 'History of utopia and the utopianism of history', History of European Ideas, 6 (1985), 189-99J.

C. Davis, 'The history of utopia: the chronology of nowhere', in Utopias, ed. by Peter Alexander and Roger Gill, Colston Papers 35 (London: Duckworth, 1984)^The Ideal City Note: see also the sections on architecture, Alberti, and PatriziFernando Mar'ias, 'From the 'ideal city' to real cities: perspectives, chorographies, models, vedute', in The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750, ed. by Henry A. Millon (London: Thames & Hudson, 1999), pp.

219-40Renato Uglione, ed. La citt`a ideale nella tradizione classica e biblico-cristiana: atti del Convegno nazionale di studi (Torino 1985), Regione Piemonte (Turin: Assessorato alla Cultura, 1987)Cesare De Seta, Massimo Ferretti and Alberto Tenenti, Imago urbis. Dalla citt`a ideale alla citt`a reale, pref. by A. Chastel (Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1986)Leon Battista Alberti, La citt`a ideale nel Rinascimento, ed. by Gianni Carlo Sciolla, introd. by Luigi Firpo (Turin: UTET, 1975)Helen Rosenau, The Ideal City, its Architectural Evolution (London: Studio Vista, 1974)Eugenio Garin, 'The ideal city', trans. by Peter Munz, in Science and Civic Life in the Italian Renaissance (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969), pp.

21-48Luigi Firpo, 'La citt`a ideale del Filarete', in Studi in memoria di Gioele Solari (Turin, 1956), pp. 11-59S. Lang, 'The Ideal City from Plato to Howard', Architectural Review, 112 (1952), 90-101^Language Paul Cornelius, Languages in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Imaginary Voyages (Geneva: Droz, 1965)^Law Miguel 'Angel Ramiro Avil'es, Utop'ia y derecho: El sistema jur'idico en las sociedades ideales, introd. by J. C. Davis (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2002)Miguel 'Angel Ramiro Avil'es, 'The law-based utopia', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2001), 225-48P.

Foriers, 'Les Utopies et le droit', in Les Utopies `a la Renaissance, Travaux de l'Institut pour l''Etude de la Renaissance et de l'Humanisme 1 (Brussels: Presses Universitaires de Bruxelles, 1963), pp. 233-61^The Middle Ages Janet Coleman, 'The continuity of utopian thought in the middle ages: a reassessment', Vivarium, 20 (1982), 1-23F. Graus, 'Social Utopias in the Middle Ages', Past and Present, 38 (1967), 5-20^Moon Travel Primary Francis Godwin, 'The Man in the Moon' and 'Nuncius inanimatus', ed. by Grant McColley (Northampton, MA, 1937)Johannes Kepler, Kepler's Somnium: The dream, or, posthumous work on lunar astronomy, ed. and trans. by Edward Rosen (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967)Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone, ed. by Andy Johnson and Ron Shoesmith (Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herefordshire: Logaston Press, 1996)John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638) (Amsterdam and New York: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1972)Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, Other Worlds: The comical history of the states and empires of the moon and sun, ed. by Geoffrey Strachan (London: Oxford University Press, 1965)Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, trans. by H.

A. Hargreaves (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)Secondary A. G. H. Barhrach, ''Luna mendax': some reflections on moon travel in early-seventeenth century England', in Between Dream and Nature: Essays on utopia and dystopia, ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith and C.C. Barfoot, DQR studies in literature 2 / Costerus n.s.

61 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 70-90Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 'A World in the Moon, A Study of the Changing Attitude Toward the Moon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, 17 (1936), 1-72Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Voyages to the Moon (New York, 1948)^Politics David Colclough, 'Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis', in Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis', ed. by Bronwen Price, Texts in culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 60-81Quentin Skinner, 'Thomas More's Utopia and the virtue of true nobility', in Visions of Politics, vol. II: Renaissance Virtues (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)J. C.

Davis, 'Utopianism', in The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700, ed. by J. H. Burns and Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 329-44Krishan Kumar, Utopianism, Concepts in the Social Sciences (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991)Mark Goldie, 'Obligations, utopias and their historical context', Historical Journal, 26 (1983), 727-46Barbara Goodwin and Keith Taylor, The Politics of Utopia (London: St Martin's Press, 1983)Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols, vol. I: The Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978)J. Seguy, 'Une sociologie des soci'et'es imagin'ees: monarchisme et utopie', Annales: 'Economies, Soci'et'es, Civilisations, 26 (1971), 328-54Judith Shklar, 'The political theory of Utopia: from melancholy to nostalgia', in Utopias and Utopian Thought, ed.

by Frank Edward Manuel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966), pp. 101-115Antonia McLean, 'Utopian communism and the state', in Humanism and the Rise of Science in England (London: Heinemann, 1972), pp. 56-63Early Modern Republicanism Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen, eds., Republicanism, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)Warren Chernaik, 'Biblical republicanism', Prose Studies, 23 (2001), 147-60Eric Nelson, 'Greek nonsense in More's Utopia', Historical Journal, 44 (2001), 889-918James Hankins, ed. Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and reflections, Ideas in Context 57 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)Arihiro Fukuda, Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and mixed government in the English Civil Wars (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)Markku Peltonen, Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)Jonathan Scott, 'The rapture of motion: James Harrington's republicanism', in Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain, ed. by Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 139-63Daniel T.

Rodgers, 'Republicanism: the Career of a Concept', Journal of American History (1992), 11-38Blair Worden, 'English Republicanism', in The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700, ed. by J. H. Burns and Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 443-75Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols, vol.

I: The Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978)J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine political thought and the Atlantic republican tradition, 2nd edn with new afterward (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)Franco Venturi, Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971)William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defence of Republican Liberty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968)Hans Baron, The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance, 2nd edn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966)^Practical Application Mark Holloway, Heavens on Earth: Utopian Communities in America 1680-1880 (New York: Dover, 1966)W.

H. G. Armytage, Heavens Below: Utopian experiments in England, 1560-1960 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961)Athur E. Bestor, Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America 1663-1829 (Philadelphia, 1950)^Religion Donald R. Dickson, The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian brotherhoods and secret societies in the early seventeenth century, Brill's Studie ...

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