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.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Pamela Bedore
