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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Utopia 2e

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Translator’s Note

  • The Text of Utopia
  • Backgrounds
  • Ovid • [The Golden Age]
  • Plato • [The Guardians]
  • The Acts of the Apostles
    • [The Community of Love]
    • [The Community of Fear]
  • Lucian of Samosata • [Saturn’s Age]
  • St. Ambrose • Naboth’s Vineyard
  • St. Benedict • Monastic Rules
    • Chapter 33
    • Chapter 34
  • Cokayne
  • Tasso • Chorus from Act 2 of Aminta
  • Amerigo Vespucci • The First Voyage
  • THE HUMANIST CIRCLE LETTERS
    • Thomas More to Peter Giles
    • Peter Giles to Jerome Busleiden
    • Jerome Busleiden to Thomas More
    • Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset
    • Erasmus of Rotterdam to John Froben
    • Thomas More to Peter Giles
    • Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten
  • Reviews and Criticism
  • R. W. Chambers • The Meaning of Utopia • Utopia and the Problems of 1516
  • J. H. Hexter • The Roots of Utopia and All Evil
  • Alistair Fox • [An Intricate, Intimate Compromise]
  • Edward L. Surtz • Humanism and Communism
  • Robert C. Elliott • The Shape of Utopia
  • G. R. Elton • The Real Thomas More?
  • Northrop Frye • Varieties of Literary Utopias
  • Robert M. Adams • Paradise a la Mode
  • INSIGHTS
    • C. S. Lewis • [A Jolly Invention]
    • J. W. Allen • [A Sad and Witty Book]
    • Elizabeth McCutcheon • Denying the Contrary: More’s Use of Litotes in the Utopia
    • Edward Bellamy • From Looking Backward
  • ANTI-UTOPIAS
    • Aldous Huxley • From Brave New World
    • B. F. Skinner • From Walden Two
  • Suggestions for Further Reading