Utopian Texts
Chronological List of Utopian Texts
Note: not all of these texts are necessarily 'utopias' in the strict sense (whether there can be said to be a strict sense of this term is another matter), but they all have elements of the genre - or are used in our course.
Several early modern utopian texts can be found in digital reproductions of the original editions on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and/or Gallica.
The compilers of the New York Public Library exhibition Utopia: the search for the ideal society in the western world have put together an even more comprehensive bibliography of primary texts, starting at 1516. See also the hardly less comprehensive primary bibliography of the exhibition "Utopie, la quête de la société idéale en Occident" at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Antiquity
PLATO (c. 429-347 BCE), Republic (late 370s BCE)
LUCIAN (born c. 120 CE), The True History
Early Modern
THOMAS MORE (1478-1535), De optimo reipublicae......
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