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Utopia : The History of an Idea.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, Limited, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (158 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780500775271
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: UtopiaDDC classification:
  • 321.0709
LOC classification:
  • HX806 .C534 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- About the Authors -- Other Titles of Interest -- Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Introduction: The Search for Utopia -- 1 The Classical Age: Myths, Golden Ages and Ideal Constitutions -- 2 Christian Archetypes: Heaven And Hell, Millennium And Apocalypse -- 3 Extra-European Visions of the Ideal Society: Nowhere, Elsewhere -- 4 A Genre Defined: Thomas More's Utopia -- 5 Paradise Found?: Voyages of Discovery to the New World and Beyond -- 6 The Age of Defoe and Swift: Satires and Desert Islands -- 7 Revolution and Enlightenment: America, France and Worlds Remade -- 8 Ideal Cities: Medieval to Modern -- Plate Section -- 9 Utopia as Community: From Shakers to Hippies -- 10 The Second Age of Revolution: Socialism, Communism and Anarchism -- 11 Inventing Progress: Rationalism, Technology and Modernity as Utopia -- 12 The Emergence of Science Fiction: New Worlds Above and Beyond -- 13 Varieties of Dystopia: Totalitarianism And After In Satire And Reality -- 14 Utopia, Science Fiction and Film: The Final Frontier -- Conclusion: Paradise Lost? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index -- Copyright.
Summary: A compelling history of a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society.
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Cover -- Title Page -- About the Authors -- Other Titles of Interest -- Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Introduction: The Search for Utopia -- 1 The Classical Age: Myths, Golden Ages and Ideal Constitutions -- 2 Christian Archetypes: Heaven And Hell, Millennium And Apocalypse -- 3 Extra-European Visions of the Ideal Society: Nowhere, Elsewhere -- 4 A Genre Defined: Thomas More's Utopia -- 5 Paradise Found?: Voyages of Discovery to the New World and Beyond -- 6 The Age of Defoe and Swift: Satires and Desert Islands -- 7 Revolution and Enlightenment: America, France and Worlds Remade -- 8 Ideal Cities: Medieval to Modern -- Plate Section -- 9 Utopia as Community: From Shakers to Hippies -- 10 The Second Age of Revolution: Socialism, Communism and Anarchism -- 11 Inventing Progress: Rationalism, Technology and Modernity as Utopia -- 12 The Emergence of Science Fiction: New Worlds Above and Beyond -- 13 Varieties of Dystopia: Totalitarianism And After In Satire And Reality -- 14 Utopia, Science Fiction and Film: The Final Frontier -- Conclusion: Paradise Lost? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Index -- Copyright.

A compelling history of a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the ideal society.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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