Utopia

Robert M. Adams's celebrated translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations.

Preface to the Second Edition

vii

(4)

Translator's Note

xi

The Text of Utopia

1

(86)

Backgrounds

87

(48)

Ovid

[The Golden Age]

89

(2)

Plato

[The Guardians]

91

(1)

The Acts of the Apostles

92

(2)

[The Community of Love]

93

(1)

[The Community of Fear

93

(1)

Lucian of Samosata [Saturn's Age]

94

(2)

St. Ambrose

Naboth's Vineyard

96

(2)

St. Benedict

Monastic Rules

98

(1)

Chapter 33

98

(1)

Chapter 34

98

(1)

Cokayne

99

(2)

Tasso

Chorus from Act 2 of Aminta

101

(3)

Amerigo Vespucci

The First Voyage

104

(4)

THE HUMANIST CIRCLE: LETTERS

108

(27)

Thomas More to Peter Giles

109

(3)

Peter Giles to Jerome Busleiden

112

(3)

Jerome Busleiden to Thomas More

115

(2)

Guillaume Bude to Thomas Lupset

117

(5)

Erasmus of Rotterdam to John Froben

122

(1)

Thomas More to Peter Giles

123

(2)

Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten

125

(10)

Criticism

135

(124)

R.W. Chambers

The Meaning of Utopia

137

(10)

Utopia and the Problems of 1516

142

(5)

J.H. Hexter

The Roots of Utopia and All Evil

147

(7)

Alistair Fox

[An Intricate, Intimate Compromise]

154

(15)

Edward L. Surtz

Humanism and Communism

169

(12)

Robert C. Elliott

The Shape of Utopia

181

(14)

G.R. Elton

The Real Thomas More?

195

(10)

Northrop Frye

Varieties of Literary Utopias

205

(6)

Robert M. Adams

Paradise a la Mode

211

(6)

INSIGHTS

217

(22)

C.S. Lewis

[A Jolly Invention]

217

(3)

J.W. Allen

[A Sad and Witty Book]

220

(4)

Elizabeth McCutcheon

Denying the Contrary: More's Use of Litotes in the Utopia

224

(5)

Edward Bellamy

From Looking Backward

229

(10)

ANTI-UTOPIAS

239

(20)

Aldous Huxley

From Brave New World

239

(10)

B.F. Skinner

From Walden Two

249

(10)

Suggestions for Further Reading

259

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