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Author:

Johnson, James William, 1927- comp.

Title:

Utopian literature : a selection, edited, with introductions / by J. W. Johnson.

Publisher:

Modern Library,

Copyright Date:

c1968

Description:

xiv, 332 p. ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Utopias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. xv) and index.

Contents:

People / Garden of Eden / William Golding. Golden age : Prometheus and Pandora / Thomas Bulfinch -- Saturn and the Saturnalia / Sir James Frazer -- Greek and Roman historiography. Ethiopians / Herodotus -- Scythians / Strabo -- Egyptians / Diodorus Siculus -- Classical political theorists. Republic / Plato -- Lycurgus and the Spartans / Plutarch -- New Jerusalem. Prophecies / Isaiah -- My father's kingdom / Jesus of Nazareth -- New Jerusalem / St. John the Divine -- City of God / St. Augustine -- Middle ages. Purgatory / Dante Alighieri -- Renaissance. Of cannibals / Michel Montaigne -- Utopia / Sir Thomas More -- Atlantis / Francis Bacon -- City of the sun / Thomas Campanella -- Garden / Andrew Marvell -- Adam in Eden / John Milton -- Eighteenth century. Lilliputians / Jonathan Swift -- Happy valley / Samuel Johnson -- Asem, and eastern tale / Oliver Goldsmith -- Nineteenth century. Altrurian in America / William Dean Howells -- Looking backward / Edward Bellamy -- Island and the ocean / Herman Melville -- Life in the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- 31,920 A.D. / George Bernard Shaw -- Twentieth century. Walden two / B.F. Skinner -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Departmental / Robert Frost -- There will come soft rains / Ray Bradbury -- People / William Golding.

Series:

Modern Library college editions

LCCN:

68016777

Locations:

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)