Week Twelve

Utopia and Dystopia
Utopian Literature

Plato's Republic (381 BC)

St Augustine of Hippo, City of God (426 AD)

Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)

Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis (1627)
James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656)
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (1948)

 
Dystopian Literature 

Plato's Republic
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Book III: A Voyage to Laputa, BalniBarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan (1726)

Wells, The Time Machine (1895)

Yevgeny Zamyatin We (1921)

Karel Čapek, R.U.R.  Rossum's Universal Robots (1921)
Franz Kafka,The Trial (1925)
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
Karel Čapek, The War with the Newts (1936)

Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (1938)  

George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)

C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength (1945)

Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister (1947)

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by

Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Another List

The Modern World

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
H.G. Wells, “The Country of the Blind”, “The Crystal Egg”
H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928)  , from Supernatural Horror in Literature: Clarke Ashton Smith (1939)
Clark Ashton Smith, "The City of the Singing Flame" (1931)

Clark Ashton Smith Art Gallery

Music, Animation and Fantasy

Film, Allegro Non Troppo
Film: Fantastic Planet