Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature « Series from 2017

Series from 2017

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Genres: Documentary, Special Interest

Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature plunges you into the history and development of utopian ideas and their dystopian counterparts.

You’ll encounter some of the most powerful and influential texts in this genre as you travel centuries into the past and thousands of years into the future, through worlds that are beautiful, laughable, terrifying, and always thought-provoking.

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Utopia: The Perfect Nowhere

Thomas More and Utopian Origins

Swift, Voltaire, and Utopian Satire

American Dreamers: Hawthorne and Alcott

Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies

Edward Bellamy and Utopian Activism

H.G. Wells and Utopian Science Fiction

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gendered Utopia

Yevgeny Zamyatin and Dystopian Uniformity

Aldous Huxley and Dystopian Pleasure

George Orwell and Totalitarian Dystopia

John Wyndham and Young Adult Dystopia

Philip K. Dick's Dystopian Crime Prevention

Anthony Burgess, Free Will, and Dystopia

The Feminist Utopian Movement of the 1970s

Ursula K. Le Guin and the Ambiguous Utopia

Samuel Delany and Heterotopia

Octavia Butler and the Utopian Alien

Octavia Butler and Utopian Hybridity

Margaret Atwood and Environmental Dystopia

Suzanne Collins and Dystopian Games

Cyberpunk Dystopia: Doctorow and Anderson

Apocalyptic Literature in the 21st Century

The Future of Utopia and Dystopia