BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliographical works. G. Negley, The Utopia Collection
of Duke University Library (Durham, N.C., 1965), contains
over 500 titles. United States Library of Congress, Public
Affairs Information Service, Division of Bibliography,
Utopias (Washington, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928).
Anthologies of utopian writings containing bibliographi-
cal information. H. C. Baldry, Ancient Utopias (Southamp-
ton, 1956). G. Boas and A. O. Lovejoy, Primitivism and
Related Ideas in Antiquity (Baltimore, 1935), the standard
source for selections and references dealing with “the
Golden Age.” F. E. and F. P. Manuel, French Utopias: An
Anthology of Ideal Societies (New York, 1966), mainly
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century selections. G. Negley
and J. M. Patrick, The Quest for Utopia: An Anthology of
Imaginary Societies (New York, 1952), contains all or parts
of thirty-three utopias and lists the titles of over 100 other
utopias and dystopias as well as major secondary sources
to 1950.
General works bearing on utopian writing containing
bibliographical information. G. Atkinson, The Extraordinary
Voyage in French Literature before 1700 (New York, 1920);
idem, The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature from
1700 to 1720 (Paris, 1922). W. Bentley, The Communication
of Utopian Thought: Its History, Forms, and Use (San
Francisco, 1955). M. Buber, Paths in Utopia (London, 1949).
N. Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium, 2nd ed. (New York,
1961). G. D. H. Cole, A History of Socialist Thought: The
Forerunners 1779-1850 (London, 1955). R. C. Elliot, The
Shape of Utopia: Studies in a Literary Genre (Chicago, 1970).
N. Eurich, Science in Utopia: A Mighty Design (Cambridge,
1967), is necessary reading for those interested in seven-
teenth-century utopias. Fédération International des
Instituts et Sociétés pour l'Étude de la Renaissance, Les
utopies à la renaissance: colloque international (Liège, 1963);
twelve essays dealing with Nicholas of Cusa, Robert Burton,
Jerome Cardan, Thomas More, Kaspar Stiblin, Johann
Andreae, Rabelais, and others. S. R. Graubard, ed.,
Daedalus, 94, 2,
The Proceedings of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences: Utopia (Richmond, 1965), thirteen
papers on various topics concerning utopia. J. O. Hertzler,
The History of Utopian Thought (New York, 1923), dated
but still useful. G. Kateb,
Utopia and Its Enemies (Glencoe,
1963). H. Kern,
Staatsutopie und allgemeine Staatslehre: ein
Beitrag zur allgemeine Staatslehre unter besonderer Beruck-
sichtigung von Thomas Morus und H. G. Wells (Mainz?
1951?). H. Levin,
The Myth of the Golden Age in the
Renaissance (Bloomington, 1969). K. Mannheim,
Ideologie
und Utopie (Bonn, 1929), trans. as
Ideology and Utopia
(London, 1936). A. E. Morgan,
Nowhere and Somewhere:
How History Makes Utopias and How Utopias Make History
(Chapel Hill, 1946), argues that More's
Utopia betrays
European knowledge of Peru prior to its conquest. M. H.
Nicolson,
Voyages to the Moon (New York, 1948). F. T.
Russell
Touring Utopia (New York, 1932). J. Servier,
Histoire
de l'utopie (St. Amand, 1967). J. Shklar,
After Utopia
(Princeton, 1957). J. L. Talmon,
The Origins of Totalitarian
Democracy (London, 1951), has an excellent section on how
the eighteenth-century utopians conceived of a natural,
rational political order. S. L. Thrupp,
Millennial Dreams
in Action (The Hague, 1962). E. L. Tuveson,
Millennium
and Utopia: A Study in the Background of the Idea of
Progress, 2nd ed. (New York, 1964). C. Walsh,
From Utopia
to Nightmare (New York, 1962).
Studies of utopists and utopias. W. H. G. Armytage,
Heavens Below: Utopian Experiments in England 1560-1960
(London and Toronto, 1961). A. E. Bestor, Backwoods
Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communi-
tarian Socialism in America 1663-1829 (Philadelphia, 1950),
is particularly good on early American communities. C.
Blitzer, An Immortal Commonwealth: The Political Thought
of James Harrington (New Haven, 1960). E. R. Curtis, A
Season in Utopia: The Story of Brook Farm (New York, 1961).
J. H. Hexter, More's Utopia: The Biography of an Idea
(Princeton, 1952). R. V. Hine, California's Utopian Com-
munities (San Marino, 1953). H. J. N. Horsburgh, “The
Relevance of the Utopian,” Ethics (1967), 127-38. R. Owen,
Utopianism and Education: Robert Owen and the Owenites,
ed. J. F. C. Harrison (New York, 1968). F. E. Manuel, The
Prophets of Paris (Cambridge, 1962). Morelly, Code de la
Nature... avec une introduction et des notes par Gilbert
Chinard (Paris, 1950). C. Nordhoff, The Communist Societies
of the United States (New York, 1875; 1961; 1965), a famous
eyewitness account of the American communities in 1874.
J. H. Noyes, History of American Socialisms (New York,
1870; 1961), by the leader of the Oneida Community. C.
Rihs, “Les Utopistes contre les lumières,” Studies on Voltaire
and the Eighteenth Century, 57 (1967), 1321-55. J. Shklar,
Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau's Social Theory
(Cambridge, 1969), a study of utopian elements in Rous-
seau's works. E. L. Surtz, S. J., The Praise of Wisdom: A
Commentary on the Religious and Moral Problems and
Backgrounds of St. Thomas More's Utopia (Chicago, 1957).
L. G. Thompson, Ta t'ung shu: The One World Philosophy
of K'ang Yu Wei (London, 1958). D. Winston, Iambulus,
A Literary Study in Greek Utopianism (Ann Arbor, 1956).
P. Yershov, Science Fiction and Utopian Fantasy in Soviet
Literature (New York, 1954).
ROGER L. EMERSON
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