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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^eye de la soci " et'e id " ease en Occident' at the Biblioth'e que nationale de France. Antiquity PLATO (c. 429-347 BCE), Republic (late 370's BCE) LUCIAN (born c.

120 CE), The True History Early Modern THOMAS MORE (1478-1535), De opt imo state de que nova insula Utopia (Louvain, 1516) JOHANN EBERLIN VON G"UNZBURG (c. 1470-1533), New Statute die Psitacus hat a uss 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 republica (Basel, 1555) FRANCOIS RABELAIS (c. 1495-1553), Oeuvres (Lyon, 1558) LODOVICO AGOSTINI (1534-1590), La repubblica (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), Mund us 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 (Sau mur, 1616) [On Gallica N 101920] JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAE (1586-1654), Reipublicae Christianopolitanae description (Strasbourg, 1619) LODOVICO ZUCCOLO, Dialog hi (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. Or A discourse of a voyage thither (London, 1638) [GABRIEL PLATTES] (d. 1662), A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria (London, 1641) [SAMUEL GOTT], Novae solyman (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 Mercuries Politics (London, 1659) SAVINIEN CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1619-1655), Les estate et empires de la lune (Paris, 1657) and Les estate 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 N 505] and A New and Further Discovery of the Isle of Pines (London, 1668) [Wing N 509]. JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592-1670), 'Panorthosia', in De rerum human arum emendation e consultation catholic a (before 1670) [EDWARD HOWARD] (fl. 1669), The Six Days Adventure; Or, the New Utopia (London, 1671) JOSEPH GLANVILLE (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 Sad eur dans la Decouverte et le Voyage de la Terre Austral (Geneva, 1676) DENIS VAIRASSE D'ALLAIS (c. 1630-1672), Histoire des S' (Paris, 1677-79) BERNARD le BOVIER de FONTENELLE (1657-1757), Entretien's sue la plural it'e des mondes (Paris, 1686) MARY ASTELL (1668-1731), A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (London, 1694) FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MO THE-F'ENELON (1651-1715), Les Avantures de T'el' (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 Miranda (New York, 1753) [VOLTAIRE] (1694-1778), Candide, ou l'Optimisme, de l'allemande de M. le 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 " event au voyage de Bougainville (1773) [SARAH SCOTT] (d.

1795), Millennium Hall (London, 1778) 'PHILELEUTHERUS DEVONIENSIS' (i.e. THOMAS NORTH MORE) (1766-1851), Memoirs of Planets; 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 Buch gesellschaft, 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 Fortunate and Raymond Trousson, eds., Dictionary of Literary Utopias, (Paris: Honor'e Champion 'Editeur, 2000) R.C.S. Tra hair, Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999) Alberto Manuel and Gianni Guadalupe, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (London: Granada, 1981) Pierre Versions, Encyclop " edie de l'utopia des voyages extraordinaire's et de la science fiction (Lausanne: L'Age d'homme, 1972) ^Bibliographies Utopian Literature: A Selective

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