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Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

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Join an award-winning professor to examine a wide range of literary works extending from the peaceful to the nightmarish, and from the conservative to the subversive.

Syllabus

  • 01: Utopia: The Perfect Nowhere
  • 02: Thomas More and Utopian Origins
  • 03: Swift, Voltaire, and Utopian Satire
  • 04: American Dreamers: Hawthorne and Alcott
  • 05: Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies
  • 06: Edward Bellamy and Utopian Activism
  • 07: H. G. Wells and Utopian Science Fiction
  • 08: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gendered Utopia
  • 09: Yevgeny Zamyatin and Dystopian Uniformity
  • 10: Aldous Huxley and Dystopian Pleasure
  • 11: George Orwell and Totalitarian Dystopia
  • 12: John Wyndham and Young Adult Dystopia
  • 13: Philip K. Dick's Dystopian Crime Prevention
  • 14: Anthony Burgess, Free Will, and Dystopia
  • 15: The Feminist Utopian Movement of the 1970s
  • 16: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Ambiguous Utopia
  • 17: Samuel Delany and the Heterotopia
  • 18: Octavia Butler and the Utopian Alien
  • 19: Octavia Butler and Utopian Hybridity
  • 20: Margaret Atwood and Environmental Dystopia
  • 21: Suzanne Collins and Dystopian Games
  • 22: Cyberpunk Dystopia: Doctorow and Anderson
  • 23: Apocalyptic Literature in the 21st Century
  • 24: The Future of Utopia and Dystopia
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Pamela Bedore

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