CONTENTS
Introduction 6
The Search for Utopia
Chapter 1 The Classical Age 16
Myths, Golden Ages and Ideal Constitutions
Chapter 2 Christian Archtypes 28
Heaven and Hell, Millennium and Apocalypse
Chapter 3 Extra European Visions of the Ideal Society 44
Nowhere, Elsewhere
Chapter 4 A Gendre Defined 58
Thomas More's Utopia
Chapter 5 Paradise Found? 70
Vouages of Discovery to the New World and Beyond
Chapter 6 The Age of Defoe and Swift 86
Satires and Desert Islands
Chapter 7 Revolution and Enlightenment 98
America, France and Worlds Remade
Chapter 8 Ideal Cities 112
Medieval to Modern
Chapter 9 Utopia as Community 128
From Shakers to Hippies
Chapter 10 The Second Age of Revolution 140
Socialism, Communism and Anarchism
Chapter 11 Inventing Progress 150
Rationalism, Technology and Modernity as Utopia
Chapter 12 The Emergence of Science Fiction 162
New Worlds Above and Beyond
Chapter 13 Varieties of Dystopia 174
Totalitarianism and After in Satire and Reality
Chapter 14 Utopia, Science Fiction and Film 188
The Final Frontier
Conclusion 200
Notes 214
Bibliography 218
Picture Credits 221
Index 222