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	Utopian Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This will be the front page for my hyperessay web project on nineteenth century utopian fiction, focusing my attention on the twenty year period from 1871 to 1891.
		Of all utopian literature, two-thirds were written in the 1800's (Mumford 115).
		Oneida was uniquely successful; it was flush with $108,000 in capital in its first nine years, became profitable in 1857, and survived in an abbreviated form into the twentieth century (187, 193).
	www.louisville.edu /~adwats01/utopianintro.html (806 words)

	Utopian and dystopian fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world as the setting for a novel.
		Both are commonly found in science fiction novels and stories.
		A subgenre of this is ecotopian fiction, where the author posits either a utopian or dystopian world revolving around environmental conservation or destruction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utopian_fiction (294 words)

	Politics and Culture
		Wegner's work with utopian fiction contributes significantly to the interdisciplinary work of space by placing the narrative utopia with that of the "conceived," the arena of the urban planner, or social engineer.
		The tendency to read utopian fiction as an end to itself, in other words, to read it as it were a static representation of one's world, can be seen in Zamyatin's We.
		An attempt to mark utopian fiction and thinking as an absolute failure to engage with one's world is avoided by Wegner's use of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattri's writing on space, specifically from the "Treatise on Nomadism:-The War Machine" plateau in A Thousand Plateaus.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=175 (2587 words)

	Islandia: Plotting Utopian Desire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However much colored by private desires, the utopian impulse is at heart a social one: its goal is a better way of being, not simply for an individual, but for humanity as a whole--or at least for some group of individuals living a social life.
		To resolve the utopian plot with a marriage is to reduce the utopian project to a nucleus of domestic bliss--a cozy but narrow cell of bourgeois contentment where private concerns take precedence.
		According to this description, a spokesperson for a utopian world engages in philosophical dialogue with a skeptical representative of the world of the author and the author's readers; by weighing the arguments in the debate, readers are finally convinced of the superiority of the utopian way of life.
	www.umaine.edu /english/facultypages/islandia.htm (6403 words)

	Femspec -- An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal
		Similar to traditional utopian narratives that conceptualize the “ideal of community,” in feminist utopias, the discussion of alternative social models is in the foreground of the texts.
		Her notion of difference and its inherent changing nature that is part of Butler’s utopian desire becomes apparent in her narrative technique when the estranged daughter’s doubts of the validity of her mother’s vision critique the utopian dream.
		Butler conceptualizes the utopian impulse in her futuristic vision as a religious spirituality that rejects both the patriarchal concept of “God” and the essentialist notion of an “earth mother goddess” (Pearson 58) based in cultural feminism that is often an element within feminist utopias of the 1970s.
	www.femspec.org /samples/butler.html (10611 words)

	Fabi/Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel. Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		And because the utopian novel was popular at the turn of the century, it is also hard to believe that African American authors would not have engaged with this genre, notably because it had become an important playground for the racialist, eugenicist, and segregationist discourse of white writers.
		It is a utopian vision of empowerment that implies a complex notion of self-assertion and self-determination that moves beyond retributive and suicidal retaliation.
		His utopian version of the typical triangle of white husband, white wife, and fl mistress may have been intended as paradigmatic of how the new spirit of racial cooperation has come to influence the private sphere of sexuality and the family.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/fabi/ch2.html (11763 words)

	Raymond Williams- Utopia and Science Fiction
		It is also because the importance of utopian thought is itself being revalued, so that some now see it as the crucial vector of desire, without which even the laws are, in one version, imperfect, and, in another version, mechanical, needing desire to give them direction and substance.
		Indeed the variability of the utopian situation, the utopian impulse, and the utopian result is crucial to the understanding of utopian fiction.
		The utopian mode has to be read, always, within that changing context, which itself determines whether its defining subjunctive tense is part of a grammar which includes a true indicative and a true future, or whether it has seized every paradigm and become exclusive, in assent and dissent alike.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/16/williams16art.htm (4909 words)

	Review of: Edith W (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this manner, Clowes work "nominates" meta-utopian fiction for our political and intellectual sympathy: the works she examines are new heroes to replace the ones rendered uninteresting or discredited in recent years.
		Her arguments simultaneously draw out the significance of the works treated as critiques of utopian literary and cultural traditions and examine theoretical models addressing utopian writing (mostly of Western origin), revealing their shortcomings in application to meta-utopian writing and Russian political and cultural traditions.
		Clowes tendency to "heroize" meta-utopian fiction as a literary phenomenon corresponding to the rise of pluralist politics, as a statement of a correct model for social imagination, appears problematic in light of recent events in
	www.websher.net /yale/rl/trends/web-plain/lit-meta-utopia.html (970 words)

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		The Utopians have ample food, housing and leisure to improve their minds and bodies, but they live in communal households and their clothes are all the same.
		The disjunction between their utopian societies and the actual conditions of early modern Europe raises some fundamental questions about the nature of historical interpretation.
		By separating the institution of brotherhood from either biological models or larger universal ones, and instead insisting upon the importance of individual choice, “supernatural” brotherhood models itself upon the capitalist society it emerges in response to and therefore remains as the one remaining viable form.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~ehrlich/509/509_sp05_utopia_notes2.html (1624 words)

	Science Fiction and Politics Study Group Syllabus
		A utopian community based on the philosophy of operant conditioning.
		A future utopian society, with a strong welfare system, that confronts a coup by genetic engineers attempting to commandeer the gene bank.
		The utopian future is a decentralized participatory democracy.
	www.changesurfer.com /Acad/SFBib.html (717 words)

	Amazon.com: "utopian science fiction": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Feminist utopian science fiction explores the ways politics is gendered and how roles, whether in households or between colonizer and colonized, constrain and dispose...
		By comparison, the lan- guage of fairness, equity, and justice, and the attacks on exploitation seem lifeless...
		The Intersection of Science Fiction and Philosophy: Critical Studies (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Robert E. Myers
	www.amazon.com /phrase/utopian-science-fiction (338 words)

	Society for Utopian Studies - Utopian Studies Journal
		Keulen, Margarete, Radical Imagination: Feminist Conceptions of the Fiction of Ursula Le Guin, Marge Piercy and Sally Miller Gearhart (Anderson) 3.1 (1992): 158-60.
		Kuntz, Marion Leathers, Venice, Myth and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bodin, Postel and the Virgin of Venice (Eliav-Feldon) 11.2 (2000): 275-77.
		Martin, Andrew, The Mask of the Prophet: The Extraordinary Fictions of Jules Verne (Hatfield) 4.1 (1993): 165-67.
	www.utoronto.ca /utopia/journal/byauthorofbook/authbook_k-o.html (4662 words)

	Utopic Fiction and the Mars Novels of Kim Stanley Robinson - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Like George Orwell's 1984, his fragmentary novel Naked Lunch uses science fiction motifs to depict a consciousness shaped by drugs and mass media, in a world where technology is used as an instrument of control, not liberation.
		For many of their generation, the experiences of Dresden, Hiroshima, forced agricultural collectivization, and the Holocaust ended forever the faith in technological progress that was the cornerstone of early-century utopianism.
		Robinson gets around the narrow and undemocratic implications of science fiction's traditional rule of scientists and engineers by quite logically making everyone on Mars a scientist or engineer--an elect lifted to heaven by their virtue (a millennial trope that utopianism can't seem to live without).
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001summer/robinson.shtml (1463 words)

	Lyman Tower Sargent- Themes in Utopian Fiction in English Before Wells*
		two of the major variants of the genre (the arcadia and the utopian satire using the imaginary-country approach); and, all in all, the basic characteristics that the utopian society was to have for the succeeding centuries.
		Spence was the first utopian to write in direct response to the industrial revolution and his proposals for local control of land and industry sound modern even today.
		The different forms of utopia (eutopia, dystopia, or utopian satire) may be commonly defined as species of prose fiction describing in some detail a non-existent society located in time and space.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/10/sargent10art.htm (4339 words)

	Utopian Feminist Pedagogy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Everyday Sociology
		More specifically, Gilman’s utopian fiction stands as a practical articulation of her social thought—ideas that students easily grasp through Gilman’s satire on the unnecessary evils of the current social relations.
		Gilman understood the power of feminist utopian fiction and used this genre to articulate her sociological insights to the world.
		While the characters in these three utopian fictions all do the “imagining” for us, they cannot convey their vision without effort from the reader—this is active learning at its finest.
	www.lsus.edu /la/journals/ideology/contents/utopianfeministpedagogy.htm (11444 words)

	Feminist Literary Utopias
		An early utopian novel by a woman is Mary Shelley's The Last Man, first published in 1826 and reissued at intervals since, mostrecently in 1985 with an introduction by science fiction author and scholar Brian Aldiss.
		As she relates them, the differences between feminist utopian traditions and those of the mainstream are many.
		In the utopian Anarres she presents a society of anarchists, where the primary directive is for each person to develop his/her own life to the fullest and thereby move the whole of society on to perfection.
	home.fuse.net /dabogens/utopia.html (3347 words)

	Conscious Dreaming: Feminist Utopian Narrative as Mentor @ WomenWriters.net
		In contrast to the utopian narrative is the dystopia.
		The desire for and formulation of ideal community models is often predicated upon an assumption of the superiority of a homogenous, common identity; wholly utopian narratives may posit socially fallacious solutions which identify difference as the social problem, rather than pinpointing the interpretation and stratification of difference itself as a source of unrest or injustice.
		As Frances Bartkowski states, “The feminist utopian novel is a place where theories of power can be addressed through the construction of narratives that test and stretch the boundaries of power in its operational details” (5).
	www.womenwriters.net /summer05/scholarly/welser.htm (1669 words)

	Back to the Future
		That has always been the complaint about fictional utopias.
		As a genre, utopian fiction is a mutant species -- a hybrid of the fable and the essay.
		After all, the same book that prompted a phenomenal surge of enthusiasm now seems to embody all the basic faults of utopian fiction as a genre: the flatness of tone, the static quality of a diorama, the light coating of sentimentality in the place where human personality ought to be.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/12/24/bookend/bookend.html (1294 words)

	Society for Utopian Studies - Utopian Studies Journal
		Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory (Barr) 1.1 (1990): 120-22.
		Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: Moving the Mountain, Herland, and With Her In Ourland (Doskow, ed.) 10.2 (1999): 231-33.
		Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial (Gottlieb) 13.1 (2002): 210-11.
	www.utoronto.ca /~utopia/journal/bytitleofbook/book_a-e.html (4242 words)

	Why Feminist Utopians Might Like Science Fiction
		In typical utopian fiction characters from the author's "real" society get into another society and.link the two realms to display the utopia.
		To be sure, non-violence and consensus-building are major themes, indeed very worthy ones for exploration in utopian fiction.
		This focus may seem strange for an analysis of utopian fiction, In which plot, characters, and literary devices are mere vehicles for presenting political, social, ethical, psychological and other structures.
	www.davidmswitzer.com /slonczewski/koester.html (3122 words)

	Feminism and Utopia Bibliography
		"Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the Dream." Science Fiction Studies v.
		Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference.
		Khouri says that utopia is aim of life against death and immobility, according to her utopia is revolution.
	www.macalester.edu /courses/wgst50/resources.html (1805 words)

	Ecotopia - Utopian Fiction
		The story of Connie Ramos, unfairly incarcerated in a mental institution but who is also in touch with a Utopian future society.
		One man travels to the neighbouring world where inequality and conflict are rife seeking a new perspective and fresh inspriration.
		Written in 1890, a 19th Century visitor discovers a pastoral, Utopian society in a future London.
	www.ecotopia.ukf.net /fiction.htm (92 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Research & Literary Criticism
		Khouri says that utopia is aim of life against death and immobility; according to her, utopia is revolution.
		Feminist science fiction is a rich space at the intersection of popular literature and feminist thought, where extraordinary other worlds are imagined by writers such as Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ.
		Index to Female Writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia: 18th Century to the Present.
	www.feministsf.org /crit/critjq.html (5443 words)

	Political Futurists and Radical and Utopian SF Authors
		Stanislaw Lem, a Polish science fiction writer whose philosophical novels sometimes reflected a rejection of the Cold War and authoritarian government
		Simon Louvish author of The Resurrections, an alternate history, based on the premise that Rosa Luxemberg survived to lead a successful Communist revolution in Germany in 1923.
		"Utopic Fiction and the Mars Novels of Kim Stanley Robinson" by Jeremy Smith
	www.changesurfer.com /Acad/Authors.html (1524 words)

	Feminist Science Fiction Bibliography/Supplemental Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		An extremely useful and detailed bibliography is available on Laura Quilter's outstanding website on Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia website.
		Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s.
		I have selected one or two articles for each of the writers you will be reporting on -- but note -- this is just to get you started -- you must go much further using the electronic databases, print resources, the Voyager catalog, etc. Visit the Potter library research page to get started.
	orion.ramapo.edu /~kfowler/fsff02biblio.html (1236 words)

	Feminist Utopian Fiction
		fiction written by men tends to focus on technology and space travel.
		science fiction" precisely because of its emphasis on social structures.
		HE, SHE AND IT is not precisely a utopian novel, but mostly a projection
	research.umbc.edu /~korenman/wmst/utopia.html (3979 words)

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