The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) (Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1719)
The sequel to the much better known 1719 Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. This volume begins, after some adventures at sea, with a return to Crusoe’s island and the experiences of the people he had left there. There are conflicts with the natives from a neighboring island and many trials and tribulations, but the settlement is generally presented positively. The rest of the work is primarily adventure in various voyages. A third volume was published. See also Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by Himself. London: Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes.
Rpt. London: Ptd. for John Stockdale, 1790; as The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974, neither of which include the foldout map; and as The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 2: The Farher Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with “Explanatory Notes” (219-45) and “Textual Notes” (247-49); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from different editions (ix), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xxxiv), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (261-268), “Textual Notes” (269-270), “Bibliographical Descriptions” (271-281), “Variants” (283-414), a “Selected Bibliography” (415-417), and an Index (421-440).
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The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) (Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1719)
This work gave rise to a whole sub-genre of works dealing with a castaway on an isolated island, the most famous of which is The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) by Johann [Rudolf] Wyss (1781-1830) that appeared in hundreds of versions. Possible to treat it and the sub-genre as eutopias of solitude. See also 1719 Defoe. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is much more clearly a utopia in that more people are involved. A third volume was published, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-226, 266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes. A related work is J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940), Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.
Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 349-582 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” (iii-xiv) by Ford Madox Ford. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930; ed. Michael Shinagel. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Owens (15-51), “Explanatory Notes” (287-324) and “Textual Notes” (325-28); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from many different editions (ix-x), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xlviii), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (253-260), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (261-289), “Variants” (291-357), “Works Consulted” (359-360), a “Selected Bibliography” (361-365), and an Index (369-379). An interesting edition for children is Robinson Crusoe In Words of One Syllable. Illus. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1900.
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The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, Containing A Relation of the most Memorable Transactions, Revolutions and Heroick Exploits in that Kingdom, from the first Foundation thereof unto this present time. Collected from the most Antient Records of that Country, and Translated into our Language, not only for Delight, but for the abundant Instruction that may be learned there-from, in these Remote Parts. Written in Discharge of the Trust reposed in the Author by his Majesty, for the Discovery of Foreign things - [Joseph] [Morgan] (1671-ca. 1749) (Np [Actually Bradford], 1715)
Allegorical depiction of the theology of Calvinism as believed by the Puritans in early America. Traces the history of Basaruah (“flesh-spirit”) from its establishment through its various trouble to the eutopia (the millennium), which occurs before its king (God) defeats its enemies. The “Introduction” argues that Morgan’s depiction moderated a few of the strictures of early Puritanism as stated in Michael Wiggleworth’s Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment (1662), specifically regarding infant damnation, salvation of heathens, and the rewards of the saved (4-6).
Rpt. as The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah, and Three Unpublished Letters. By Joseph Morgan. Ed. Richard Schlatter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1946.
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News from the Dead: or, The Monthly Packet Of True Intelligence from the Other World - [Thomas] [Berington] (Ptd. for W. Needham, 1714)
The novel is made up of weekly reports from Hell as a satiric comment on contemporary Britain.
There are two earlier eds. on line. First ed. is 1714-15 originally published under the same title in eight monthly parts. Then eds. of 1719 and 1756.
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A New Voyage to the Island of Fools, Representing the Policy, Government, and Present State of the Stultitians. By A Noble Venetian. Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable, The Lord Ferdinando. Translated from the Italian - [Edmund] [Stacy] (fl 1710-15) (Ptd. for John Morphew, 1713)
Satire on England and English life with a number of descriptions of foolish behavior. Much concern with the divisions in religion and politics and with gambling, the cheating that went on, and the way it mixed classes.
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["The Vision of Mirzah"] - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (The Spectator, 1711)
Allegory that presents heaven as a eutopia composed of islands that are "the Mansions of good Men after Death." "Every Island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective Inhabitants." Described as the first vision, but no more were published.
Rpt. in The Spectator (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. R. Fleming, 1753), 277-81; and in The Spectator. Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 2: 121-26.
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Choirochorographia: sive, Hoglandiae descriptio - [Thomas] [Richards of Jesus College Oxon] (1688-1760) (Np, 1709)
Edward Holdsworth’s (1684-1746) Muscipula sive Cambro-muo-machia (1709) had satirized the Welsh, and Richards describes Holdsworth’s home county of Hampshire as Hog-Land.
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The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) (Ptd. by Benj. Bragg, 1705)
Satire on contemporary life, particularly politics,  by picturing a world in the moon. See [Joseph Browne], The Moon-Calf, or Accurate reflections on The Consolidator: Giving an Account of some Remarkable Transactions in the Lunar World, transmitted hither in a Letter to a Friend. By Man in the Moon [pseud.]. London, 1705. Rpt. Augustan Reprint Society no. 269. New York: Published for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies by AMS Press, 1996 for a response.
Rpt. in ed. Michael Seilel, Maximillian E. Novak, and Joyce D. Kennedy. The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition. New York: AMS Press, 2001; and in Satire Fantasy and Writing on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe. Volume 3 of The Works of Daniel Defoe. The Consolidator (1705) Memoirs of Count Tariff &c (1713) The Quarrel of the School Boys at Athens (1717). Ed. Geoffrey Sill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003), 27-158 with “Explanatory Notes” (215-48) and “Textual Notes” (262-63). Extracts published as A Journey to the World in the Moon. By the Author of the True-born English-man [pseud.]. Ptd. at London and rpt. at Edinburgh by James Watson, 1705 (MH); A letter from the Man in the Moon. To the Author of the True Born Englishman. [London: Np, 1705] (InU); and A second, and more strange voyage to the world in the moon; containing a comical description of that remarkable country, with the characters and humours of the inhabitants, etc. By the author of the true Born Englishman [pseud.]. [London: Np, 1705]. A New Journey to the World in the Moon. . . . 2nd ed. London: C. Corbett, 1741 is an imitation not by Defoe.
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Iter Lunare: or, A Voyage to the Moon. Containing Some Consideration on the Nature of that Planet. The Possibility of getting thither. With other Pleasant Conceits about the Inhabitants, their Manners and Customs - David Russen of Hythe (Ptd. for J. Nutt, 1703)
Mostly satire on moon voyage literature, but the description of the inhabitants suggests eutopian elements. For example, poetry is money, and there is a gun that when fired brings down the fowl ready plucked, dressed, and roasted. The planets and the sun are inhabited.
Repub. without the author's name. London: Ptd. for Robert Gofling, 1707. Rpt. with the author's name Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.
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"The Law Book" - Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) (The Law Book of the Crowley Iron Works, 1700)
A very odd book that presents one hundred and thirteen "laws" for the operation of the author's iron works. It is borderline as a utopia but is included because it details all the daily activities of the workers in a large factory including "welfare services" and "poor relief".  See the discussion in J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 351-55.
The original manuscript in 307 folios, which is incomplete, is in the British Library Add. Ms. 34,555.
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Two Discourses Concerning the Affairs of Scotland; Written in the Year 1698 - [Andrew] [Fletcher of Saltoun] (1655-1716) (Np, 1698)
The second discourse argues for a new slavery to relieve poverty; "Controlled servitude is better than vagabondage" (xxiv). In other works, Fletcher argued for revamping the political system with limitations on the monarch, a reformed Parliament, an independent judiciary, and a national militia.
Rpt. in his The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. (London: Ptd. by James Bettenham, 1732), 71-175; The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher, Esq. of Saltoun (Glasgow, Scot.: Ptd. by Robert Urie, 1749), 49-121; and Selected Political Writings and Speeches. Ed. David Daiches (Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1979), 27-66. The Two Discourses are not included in his The Political Works of Fletcher of Saltoun. London: Ptd. for H.D. Symonds, 1798.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry Of All Useful Trades and Husbandry. With Profit for the Rich. A Plentiful Living for the Poor, and A Good Education for Youth. Which will be Advantage to the Government by the Increase of the People, and their Riches - [John] [Bellers] (1654-1725) (Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1695)
Eutopia. Detailed non-fiction proposal for an institution to educate the poor and young people in useful trades and arguing that a much better society will result. The appeal is quite conservative in that it is directed to government and the rich, but the system is primarily designed to improve the lot of the poor.  See also his To the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. A Supplement to the Proposal for a Colledge of Industry, Shewing a Regular Constant Imploy for the Poor, is the best Foundation of Trade, and the greatest Improvment to the Nation, and Consequently support to the Government, whilst the want of it tends to the Poor’s Misery, Poverty of the Rich, and Governments Weakening. [London]: Np., 1696. 3 p. (L). Rpt. in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 74-76.
2nd ed. under the author’s name London: Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1696. Rpt. as New View of Society. Tracts Relative to this Subject; viz. Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry. By John Bellars. (Reprinted from the Original, published in the year 1696). Report to the Committee of the association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor. A Brief Sketch of the religious Society of People called Shakers. With an Account of the Public Proceedings connected with the subject, Which took place in London in July and August 1817. Published By Robert Owen. London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Hatchard; Murray; Constable and Co., and Oliphant and Co., Edinburgh; Smith and Sons, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, 1818. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1972; in [James Peacock, attributed to], A Plan of a Public Charity, With some former Plans for the same Purpose, in Three Appendixes, Which are submitted to the Consideration of the Benevolent, that they may select and adopt from the Whole such Parts as can be most suitably connected together, in order to form “an effectual General Charity”; but more especially for affording immediate “Relief, Protection”, and Free-Labour, to all Persons who want Employment (London: np, 1790), 5-28; and in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 47-73; and with footnotes comparing the two editions in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 187-205.
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Antiquity Reviv'd or the Government of a Certain island Antiently Called Astreada, In Reference to Religion, Policy, War, and Peace. Some hundreds of Years Before the Coming of Christ - [Francis] [Lee] (1661-1719) (Np, 1693)
Largely political philosophy and an essay on religion. Defense of absolute monarchy. Force those who disobey to be identified as such together with all their relatives.
Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 137-85.
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An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament or Estates - William Penn (1644-1718) (Np, 1693)
A proposal for a federation of European governments with the aim of establishing permanent peace. One of numerous such proposals, often called utopias; the best known is probably Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) Perpetual Peace (1795).
Rpt. in The Political Writings of William Penn. Ed. Andrew R. Murphy (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2002), 401-19.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Folly of Love, or, An Essay Upon Satyr Against Women - Richard Ames (1643-93) (Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1691)
Brief eutopia of a society without women (26-27). Compare to 1688 Ames. See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.
2nd ed. corrected and enlarged as The Folly of Love, or A New Satyr Against Women, to which is now added The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1693. 4th ed. of 2nd ed. as The Folly of Love. or A New Satyr Against Women, together with The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand. London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins., 1700.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sylvia's Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Man in Answer to the Satyr Against Woman - Richard Ames (1643-93) (Ptd. by Joseph Streater, 1688)
Brief eutopia of a society without men (20-21). See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.
Later ed. London: Ptd. for Samuel Clement, 1693.
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A Common-Wealth of Women. A Play: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, By their Majesties Servants - Mr. [Thomas] D'Urfey (1653-1723) (Ptd. for R. Bentley and J. Hindmarsh, 1686)
Standard story of a society of isolated women, in this case ruled by a man-hating woman. Handsome man appears and the women revert to traditional roles led by their previous ruler.
Rpt. with added title at the head of the page--Bibliotheca Curiosa. Ed. Edmund Goldsmid. Edinburgh, Scot.: Privately Ptd., 1886.
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The Informer's Doom, or An Amazing and Seasonable Letter from Utopia Directed to the Man in the Moon. Giving a full and pleasant Account of the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation, of all those grand and bitter Enemies that disturb and molest all Kingdoms and States, throughout the Christian World. To which is added (as a caution to honest Country-men) the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of the Knavery and Cheats that are used in every particular Trade in the city of London. Presented to the consideration of all the Tantivy-Lads and Lasses in Urope, by a true Son of the Church of England. Curiously Illustrated with about Threescore Cuts - [John] [Dunton] (1659-1733) (Ptd. for John Dunton, 1683)
A trial in Utopia of those, from the Pope on down, who threaten the kingdom.
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Situation of Paradise Found Out: Being a History of a Late Pilgrimage unto the Holy Land With a necessary apparatus prefixt, Giving Light Into the whole designe - [Hugh] [Hare] [First Baron Coleraine] (1606-67) (Ptd. by J.C. and P.C. for S. Lowndes, H. Fairborne, and J. Kersey, 1683)
Combines a concern with the location of Paradise, with descriptions of Paradise, and two visions that are part eutopia (Paradise) and part dystopia (Hell).
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A Discovery of Fonseca In a Voyage to Surranam. The Island so long sought for in the Western Ocean. Inhabited by Women with the Account of their Habits, Customs and Religion. And the Exact Longitude and Latitude of the Place Taken from the Mouth of a Person cast away on the Place in an Hurricane with the Account of their being Cast away - J[ohn] S[hirley] (fl. 1680-1702) (Np, 1682)
An island of women of Welsh origin. No men allowed on the island except for specified visits. Male children must leave at an early age. Male visitors must leave at the end of the month.
Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 131-36.
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The World that Now is, and the World that is to Come: Or the First and Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Wherein several Prophecies not yet fulfilled are Expounded - Han[serd] Knollys (ca. 1599-1691) (Ptd. by Tho. Snowden, 1681)
Eutopia of the Second Coming of Christ. The second part (105-48) describes the Second Coming and the actions that Christ will take in establishing his rule on earth. See also the author's The Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven Expounded. Or, An Exposition of the first thirteen Verses of the twenty fifth Chapter of Matthew. London: Ptd. for Benjamin Harris, 1674; An Exposition of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation. Wherein All those Things therein Revealed, which must shortly come to pass, are Explained. London: Np, 1679; and An Exposition Of the whole Book of the Revelation. Wherein The Visions and Prophecies of Christ Are Opened and Expounded: Shewing The great Conquests of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Church over all His and Her Adversaries, Pagan, Arian and Papal; and the glorious State of the Church of God in the New Heavens and New Earth, in these Latter Days. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1689.
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The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey - John Bunyan (1628-88) (Nath. Ponder, 1678)
Classic evangelical Protestant allegory of the trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, from the dystopia of contemporary life to the eutopia of eternal life.
Rpt. as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Ed. Roger Sharrock. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984; and as The Pilgrim’s Progress: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Cynthia Wall (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 1-252.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Anti-fanatical Religion, and Free Philosophy. In a Continuation of the New Atlantis" - Joseph Glanvill (1636-80) (Essays On Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, 1676)
Mostly a repetition of British history and a lecture on religion and philosophy with Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) as a starting point.
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A Country Not Named - Francis Lodwick (1619-1695) (A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, fols. IR-33R). An edition with an annotated primary bibliography and an introductory essay on Lodwick and his intellectual context by William Poole, 1675)
Eutopia. Detailed records kept on all people and all "matters notable" in each division of the country. The people had been monotheists, became polytheists, then returned to monotheism, and ultimately became Christians. Ideal language, which was one of the author's interests. Compulsory education from six with separate schools for girls with women teachers, with the education for girls the same as that for boys except that they are taught sewing and not taught gymnastics. Few laws and those read out to the population once a month.
Also in Francis Lodwick, On Language, Theology and Utopia. Ed. Felicity Henderson and William Poole (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2010), 265-87.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Gerania: A New Discovery of a Little sort of People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively Description Of their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Government, being very delightful and profitable - Joshua Barnes (1654-1721) (Ptd. by W.G. for Obadiah Blagrave, 1675)
Agrarian, monarchical eutopia. The people are Christian and appear to be naturally good. No desire for riches. The people recognize their interdependence, and everyone has an occupation that helps others.
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The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi; a Nation inhabiting part of the third Continent, Commonly called, Terra Australis Incognitae. With an Account of their admirable Government, Religion, Customs, and Language. Written By one Captain Siden [pseud.]. A worthy Person, Who, together with many others, was Cast upon those Coasts, and lived many Years in that Country - [Denis] [Vairasse d'Allais] (c. 1637-c. 1683) (Ptd. for Henry Brome, 1675)
A major work of French utopianism first published in English. Detailed eutopia stressing equality and moderation. A new language is presented. Set in what became Australia.
The second part, published in 1679, has the identical title except that A further replaces an before Account and The Second Part more wonderful and delightful than the First is added after Country. Plagiarized in Capt. Lemuel Gulliver [pseud.]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Volume 3. 2 parts. London: np, 1727 [This is not by Jonathan Swift], which is rpt. in Gulliveriana III. Comp. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972), 1-295. Published in French as Histoire des Sévarambes, peuples qui habitant une Partie du troisiéme Continent, communément appellé La Terre Australe. Contenant une Relation du Gouvernement, des Moeurs, de la Religion, & du Langage de cette Nation, inconnuë jusques à present aux Peuples de l’Europe. 2 Parts. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Estienne Roger, 1702. There was also a 1716 edition with the same title and publisher. A modern French edition is Histoire des Sévarambes. Ed. Michel Rolland. Amiens, France: Encrae, 1994. A modern English edition is Denis Veiras, The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel. Ed. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Keywords: French author; Male author

A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids, or, a Virgin-Society. By B.C. Appended to St. Cyprian Bishop and Martyr, Anno 250. Of Discipline, Prayer, Patience. St. Basil the Great, Of Solitude - C[lement] B[arksdale] (1609-87) (Ptd. for Sam[uel] Keble, 1675)
Proposal for a community of young women being educated. Most will leave for marriage. The inspiration was probably Anna Maria Schurman (1607-78), The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise. [Trans. Clement Barksdale]. [London: Ptd. by John Redmayne, 1659]. Rpt. London: Virago Modern Classic, 1986.
Keywords: English author; Male author

O-Brazile, or the Inchanted Island: Being A perfect Relation of the late Discovery and Wonderful Dis-Inchantment of an Island on the North of Ireland: With an Account of the Riches and Commodities thereof. Communicated by a Letter from London-Derry, to a Friend in London - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) (Ptd. by Tho. Newcomb, 1675)
A short  description of O-Brazile with fewer utopian elements than in his The Western Wonder (1674). Generally considered to be a description of Ireland. See also 1673 and 1674 Head.
Also published Edinburgh, Scot.: Np, 1675; and London: William Crook, 1675. Rpt. in Seventeenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural. Publication no. 74 of The Augustan Reprint Society. Los Angeles, CA: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1958. Items separately paged.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Western Wonder; or, O Brazeel, an Inchanted Island discovered; with a Relation of Two Ship-wracks in a dreadful Sea-storm in that discovery. To which is added, a Description of a Place, called, Montecapernia, relating the Nature of the People, their Qualities, Humours, Fashions, Religion, &c. - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) (Ptd. for N.C, 1674)
Satire. Begins with an argument that O Brazeel is an actual island but enchanted. O Brazeel is in some ways a classic eutopia of abundance; ". . . whatever grew, came up spontaneously, without the labour of hands" (6), but the island was controlled by Satan, although it is freed from his rule. Montecapernia is both rich in parts and barren in parts. Generally considered to be a description of Ireland and Wales.
One copy at the British Library is in a volume of "Tracts on Ireland". Rpt. London: Ptd. for N.C., 1676.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Floating Island: or, A New Discovery, Relating The strange Adventure on a late Voyage From Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ramallia, To the Eastward of Terra del Templo, By three Ships, Viz. The Pay-naught, The Excuse, The Least-in-Sight, Under the conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much: Describing the Nature of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Laws and Customs. Published by Franck Careless [pseud.] one of the Discoverers - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) (np, 1673)
A satire on English manners and custom that is particularly concerned with London. See also 1674 and 1675 Head.
Rpt. [Whitefish, MT]: Kessinger Publishing, [2004].
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Poor Robin’s Wonderful Vision; Or, England’s Warning By Many strange and miraculous Observations, the like not known in any Age. To the Tune of, Sawny will ne’r be my Love Again - [William] [Winstanley] [attributed to] (P[hilip] Brooksby, 1672)
Broadside warning of the evils of Catholicism.
Keywords: Male author

The Six Days Adventure, or the New Utopia. A Comedy, as it is acted at his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre - [Edward] [Howard] (1624-1712) (Tho. Dring, 1671)
Satire set in Utopia. Emphasis on women's rights. Women take over the government, but the men all decide to leave and under this threat the women choose to return to their previous subservient roles. See Aphra Behn, “To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy, The New Utopia.” The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 6: 204-07; rpt. as “To the Author of the New Utopia.” In The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd 7. vols. (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992), 1: 3-5.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Womens Conquest. A Tragi-Comedy As it was Acted by Her Highness the Duke of York's Servants - E[dward] H[oward] (1624-1712) (Ptd. by J.M. for H. Herringham, 1671)
Satire on gender relations in which women temporarily establish female rule.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Scydromedia seu sermo, quem Alphonsus de la Vida Habuit Coram Comite de Falmouth, De Monarchia. Liber Primus - Antonii Le Grand (1629-99) (Johannis Ziegeri, 1669)
A utopia similar in form to 1516 More but rejecting common ownership of property.
Keywords: English author; French author; Male author

The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita Being A True Relation of certain English persons, who in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a Voyage to the East Indies, were cast away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women whereof one was a Negro. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole Relation follows, written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild. Licensed June 27, 1668 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Ptd. by S.G. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper, 1668)
One man and four women shipwrecked on a beautiful island. They establish political and religious order based on European forms. This is followed, in the part that was originally A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines, by a period of "whoredoms, incest and adulteries" followed by the imposition of harsh laws.
This nine page pamphlet was followed shortly by A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines In A Letter from Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] a Dutch-man (who first discovered the same in the Year, 1667.) to a Friend of his in London. With a Relation of his voyage to the East Indies. Wherein Is declared how he happened to come thither, the Scituation of the Country, the temperature of the Climate, the manners and conditions of the people that inhabit it; their Laws, Ordinances, and Ceremonies, their way of Marrying, Burying, &c. The Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the pleasantness and facility thereof, with other matters of concern. Licensed according to Order. London: Ptd. for Allen Bankes and Charles Harper, 1668. The two were combined and published together as The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita, by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] Wherein is contained, A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation (written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) is here annexed with the Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable. Licensed July 27, 1668. London: Ptd. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper, 1668. An extract was published anonymously as “An account of certain English people, who in the year 1569, making a voyage to the East-Indies, were away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. Given by Cornelius van Sloetten, captain of a Dutch ship, which was driven there by foul weather, in the year 1667, who found their posterity (speaking good English) to the amount of 10 or 12 thousand souls.” The New-Haven Gazette and the Connecticut Magazine 1.29 (August 31, 1786): 222-24; The New-Haven Gazette 1.33 (December 23, 1794) [not found]; and The New Hampshire Mercury and General Advertiser 2:95 [sic. 94] (October 4, 1786): 1-2. A fifty-one copy edition was published as The Isle of Pines. Katoomba, NSW, Australia: The Wayzgoose Press, 1991. One version is rpt. in Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 225-43; and in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 187-212 with “Explanatory Notes” 239-42. Another version, which includes part of A New and further Discovery of the Isle of Pines is rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 113-30. Another rpt. can be found in “The Isles of Pines: Texts.” Utopian Studies 17.1 (2006): 20-75. Includes the July 27, 1668, English edition (25-51), “Novvelle Decovverte De L’Isle Pinés Située au delà de la ligne Æquinnoctiale Faite par vn nauire Hollandois L’an 1667. Paris: Sebastien-Mabre Cramoisy, 1668 known as the Cramoisy edition in both French and English trans. Christine Reno, Peter G. Sullivan, and Vassar College students (53-61), the edition from The Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence 1 ( August 1758): 394-96 (63-71), and notes on the Hollis edition of 1768 (73-75). There is a critical text in John Scheckter, The Isles of Pines, 1668. Henry Neville’s Uncertain Utopia (Farnham, Eng.: Ashgate, 2011), 13-30 with notes on the text 183-98. The July 27, 1688, edition is rpt. in The Isles of Pines and Plato Redivivus. Ed. by David Womersley (Carmel, IN: The Liberty Fund, 2020), lvi, 1-38, with footnotes by the editor, an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-lv), Appendices (317-472), including “A Copy of a Letter from an Officer of the Army in Ireland, to his Highness the Lord Protector, concerning his changing of the government” (317-37), “Neville’s Major Speeches in Parliament, 1659” (339-49), “The Armies Dutie (1659)” (351-74), “The Humble Petition (1659)” (375-82), “Manuscripts Relating to Sir Henry Neville” [Neville’s grandfather] (383-93), “[John Somers]. A Brief History of the Succession (1681)” (395-427), “Thomas Hollis’s Life of Henry Neville” (429-32), “Corrections to the Copy-Texts The Isle of Pines (433-35) and Plato Redivivus (435-38), “Textual Collation of the First and Second Editions of Plato Redivivus (439-72), and an Index to the entire volume (473-88).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Amazon Queen, or, The Amours of Thalestris to Alexander the Great. A Tragi-Comedy - Jo[seph] Weston (Ptd. for Hen. Herringman, 1667)
Amazonian society.
Keywords: Male author

Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books - John Milton (1608-74) (Ptd. by Peter Parker; Robert Boulter; and Matthias Walker, 1667)
Classic description of Eden that, unusually, includes substantial material on what life in Eden would have been like before the Fall.
2nd ed. rev. and aug. London: Ptd. by S. Simmons, 1674. Critical eds. as Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Sources. Criticism. Ed. Scott. Elledge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975; as Paradise Lost. Ed. Alastair Fowler. rev. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2007; and Paradise Lost. Ed. Barbara K. Lewalski. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Holy City: Or, The New Jerusalem: Its Goodly Light, Walls, Gates, Angels, and the manner of their standing, are Expounded: Also, Her Length and Breadth, Together with the Golden-Measuring-Reed, Explained And The Glory of all unfolded. As Also, The Numerousness of its Inhabitants: And what the Tree and Water of Life are, by which they are sustained - John Bunyan (1628-88) (Np, 1665)
Explication of Revelation XXI:10 - XXII:1-4 detailing the eutopia suggested there.
Rpt. London: J. Dover, [1665]; London: Francis Smith, 1669. Dover ed. rpt. in The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan Volume IIII Christian Behaviour The Holy City The Resurrection of the Dead. Ed. J. Sears McGee (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987), 63-196, with editorial notes on 65-67 and 299-314.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Holy Guide: Leading the Way to the Wonder of the World. (A compleat Phisitian) teaching the Knowledge of all things, Past, Present, and to Come; viz. Of Pleasure, long Life, Health, Youth, Blessedness, Wisdome and Virtue; and to Cure, Change and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old. With Rosie Crucian Medicines, which are verified by a Practical Examination of Principles in the great World, and fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of mean Capacities - John Heydon (1629-67) (Ptd. by T.M, 1662)
Rosicrucian eutopia. The "Preface" to Book 1 (unnumbered pages) is partly plagiarized from and partly a revision of the New Atlantis entitled "Journey to the Land of the Rosicrucians." Salomon's House becomes the Temple of the Rosy Cross. Alchemy. Heydon copies Bacon in modifying More's policy of showing a couple naked by having pools where men and women bathe naked separately and can be observed by friends of the same sex.
Also entitled The English Physitians Guide: Or A Holy Guide. Leading the Way to know all Things, Past, Present, and to Come; To Resolve all manner of Questions, viz. Of Pleasure, Long-life, Health, Youth, Blessednes, Wisdome and Vertue; and teaching the way to Change, Cure, and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old, fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of the meanest Capacities. London: Ptd. by T.M. for Samuel Ferris. Six books with separate, generally shorter, title pages, and separate pagination.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bentivolio and Urania, in [six] books - N[athaniel] I[ngelo], D.D. (Ptd. by J.C. for Richard Harriot, 1660)
Allegory. Book six describes a Christian eutopia called Theoprepia (The Divine State) stressing good will to others, self-knowledge, and the other Christian virtues. The eutopia appears at various points throughout the book, which is largely an allegorical life of Christ.
2nd ed. under the author’s name, with six in the title, and with the added subtitle Wherein all the Obscure words throughout the Book are interpreted in the Margins, which makes this much more delightful to read than the former edition. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Second title page Bentivolio and Urania, The Second Part, In Two Books. 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Books I-IV and V-VI are separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rota: or, A Model of a Free-State, or Equall Common-wealth; Once proposed and debated in brief, and to be again more at large proposed to, and debated by a free and open Society of ingenious Gentlemen - [James] [Harrington] (1611-77) (Ptd. for John Starkey, 1660)
A constitution for England thinly disguised as an imaginary country. See also 1656 Harrington.
Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 587-98; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; and in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 807-26.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Christian Commonwealth: or, The Civil Policy of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Interruption of the Government. Written by Mr. John Eliot, Teacher of the Church of Christ at Roxbury in New-England. And Now Published (after his consent given) by a Server of the Season - John Eliot (1604-90) (Ptd. for Livewell Chapman, 1659)
Detailed eutopia written in the 1640s that derives government structure from the Bible, particularly Exodus 18:25 and Deuteronomy 1:15. Millennial and based on covenant theology. Focused on political institutions combining theocracy with a democracy with widespread manhood suffrage (woman and children were included within a man’s covenant). Born and educated in England, Eliot moved to America in 1631 where he established a school in Roxbury, Massachusetts and was known as the “Indian Apostle”. Although it was reinstated, this was the first book banned by an American government.
Rpt. in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, 9 (1846): 128-64; and New York: Arno Press, 1972
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the true Principles of Government: For The Healing of the Mistakes, and Resolving the Doubts, that most endanger and trouble ENGLAND at this time: (if yet there may be hope.) And directing the desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world, become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ - Richard Baxter (1615-91) (Ptd. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Taylor, 1659)
Description of a theocracy based on obligation and consent. Mostly a treatise setting out rules for areas of possible conflict between the pastor and the magistrate.
Rpt. as The Holy Commonwealth. Ed. William Lamont. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy. By bringing together a fit suitable and well qualified people unto one Household-government, or little-Commonwealth, Wherein every one may keep his propriety, and be imployed in some work or other, as he shall be fit, without being oppressed. Being the way not only to rid these and other nations from idle, evil and disorderly persons, but also from all such that have sought and found out many inventions to live upon the labour of others. Whereunto is also annexed an invitation to the Society, or little Common-wealth - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) (Ptd. for G.C, 1659)
Pamphlet that formed the basis for the first American intentional community founded in 1663 but destroyed in 1664 when the English conquered New Netherland. Goods not to be held in common. No common religious practices. Few laws. Annual election of the Governor. Six hours a day of work; children work a few hours a day to learn a trade.  See also 1659 Plockhoy, The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations.
Rpt. in John Dowie, "The First Co-operative Commonwealth. Life and Work of Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.]." The Co-operative Review 7.40 - 41 (July - September 1933): 155-165; 200-212, which is rpt. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth, 1659. His Life and Works. 2nd ed. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth. Manchester, Eng.: Co-operative Union, [193?], which also includes his An Invitation to the Aforementioned Society, or Little Commonwealth Shewing the Excellency of the True Christian Love and the Folly of all Those Who Consider Not to What End the Lord of Heaven and Earth Hath Created Them. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1660.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations, Fully discovered in two Letters, delivered to his late Highnesse, and one to the present Parliament, As also one to Highness Richard Lord Protector, of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc. Wherein the liberty of speaking (which every one desire for himselfe) is opposed against Antichrist, for the procuring of his downfall, who will not grant same to others; And now published To awaken the publick spirits in England, and to raise up an universal Magistrate in Christendome, that will suffer all sorts of people, (of what Religion soever they are) in any one Countrey, as God (the great Magistrate) suffers the same in all Countreys of the world - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) (Pt. For D. White, 1659)
Eutopian essay with an emphasis on freedom of religion. See also 1659 Plockhoy, A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers; In order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick Preacher in the Commonwealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed The Tenents of the Remonstrants touching those five Articles Voted, Stated, and imposed, but not disputed, at the Synod of Dort. Together with a short Essay (by way of Annotations) upon the Fundamental Theses of Mr. Thomas Parker - [Laurence] [Womock] (1612-86) (Ptd. for R. Rayston, 1658)
The questions and answers in an examination of a man applying to be a Christian minister in Utopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

["Letters from Utopia"] - [Marchamont] [Nedham] (1620-1678) (Mercurius Politicus, Comprising The sum of forein Intelligence, with the Affairs now on foot in the three Nations of England, Scotland, & Ireland:, 1657)
Broad ranging satire on British customs and particularly on Thomas More and James Harrington. The last letter is from Oceana.
Rpt. in The English Revolution IV. Newsbooks Volume 15. Mecurius Politicus 1657 (London: Cornmarket Press, 1971), 39-40; 53-55; 69-71; 85-88; 101-02; and Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641-1660. Ed. Joad Raymond (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 369-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

An Appendix To the Former Work, Endeavouring a Discovery of the Unknown Parts of the World. Especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent - Peter Heylin (1600-52) (Ptd. for Henry Seile, 1656)
The earliest representation of Australia in British utopian literature. Divides the unknown world into Terra incognita Borealis, or the northern lands, and Terra incognita Australis. Included in Terra incognita Borealis are “Orbis Arcticus” and the Northeast and Northwest parts of the territory, none of which are utopian. Included in Terra incognita Australis are brief presentations of “Terra del Fuego,” “Insulae Solomonis,” “Nova Guinea,” Mundus Alter et Idem (1605 Hall), Utopia (1516 More), New Atlantis (1627 Bacon), “Faerie Land,” “The Painters Wives Island,” “the Lands of Chivalrie,” and “The New World in the Moon,” discovered by Lucian of Samosata (ca. 125-ca. 180). Reference is also made to Aristophanes’s (ca. 446 BC-ca. 386 BC) Nephelococcygia.
Other editions with the name as Peter Heglin. London: Printed for Philip Chetwinde, 1667; and London: Printed for A.S., 1669.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Common-wealth of Oceana - James Harrington (1611-77) (Ptd. by J. Streater for Livewell Chapman, 1656)
Eutopia. Classic work on the reform of England stressing the need for a balanced constitution. Argues for an “agrarian law”, a limit on the size landed estates to reduce inequality. The Introduction contains a two page utopia suggesting that Jews should be settled in Ireland. See also 1660 Harrington and Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety of Oceana. London: Ptd. 1659, a satire on Oceana.
Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 31-210; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 155-359; and in The Commonwealth of Oceana and A System of Politics. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1-266.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Excellent Comedy, called The Old Law: Or A new way to please you. Acted before the King and Queene at Salisbury House, and at severall other places, with great Applause. Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all Players, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed than ever before - Phil[ip] Massinger (1583-1640); Tho[mas] Middleton (1580-1627); William Rowley (1585?-1626) (Ptd. for Edward Archer, 1656)
The establishment of a fixed period for the length of life and its effects. It was all a test of the people by the rulers.
Rpt. Ed. Catherine M. Shaw. New York: Garland, 1982. Critical ed. as "An/The Old Law Or, A New Way to Please You". Ed. Jeffrey Masten. In Thomas Middleton, Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1335-96 (Comment by Masten 1331-34). Additional textual commentary by Masten in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works. Ed. Gary Taylor and Jay Lavagnino (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2007), 1123-30.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Briefe Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome, That shortly is to come into the World. That Monarch, Subjects, Officers, and Lawes thereof, and the surpassing Glory, Amplitude, Unity, and Peace of that Kingdome. When the Kingdome and Dominion, and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people, the Saints of the Most high, whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome, and all Soveraignes shall serve and obey him. And in the Conclusion there is added a Prognostick of the time when this fifth Kingdome shall begin - William Aspinwall (fl. 1630-57) (Ptd. for M. Simmons, 1653)
Fifth Monarchist eutopia or the belief, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Millennium in which Christ will be the Monarch and lawgiver. Gives details of the structure of government under Christ, the laws that will be put in place, which will “be few and brief” (10). This will be the period where the saved will no longer be ruled by the sinful.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

A Joviall Crew: or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, At the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, in the yeer 1641 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) (Ptd. by J.Y for E.D. and N.E, 1652)
Comedy but presents an ideal beggars commonwealth. See also 1640 Brome.
Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes. A Jovial Crew [341-452]. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; London: Ptd. for Henry Brome, 1661; London: Hindmarsh, 1684; and ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. See also The Jovial Crew by Richard Brome. Adapted by Stephen Jeffreys. London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1992, which was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, April 13, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths Army in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And to all Englishmen my brethren whether in Church-fellowship, or not in Church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the Order of The Gospel: and from them to all the Nations in the World. Wherin is Declared, What is Kingly Government, and what is Common-wealths Government - Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76) (Ptd. for the author, 1652)
Eutopia including detailed economic, legal, political, and social reform.
Rpt. as by Jerrard Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform. Sutro Branch California State Library. Occasional Papers. English Reprint Series No. 3. Sutro: California State Library, 1939; as by Gerrard Winstanley, “The Law of Freedom in a Platform: Or, True Magistracy Restored.” The Works of Gerrard Winstanley with an Appendix of Documents Related to the Digger Movement. Ed. George H. Sabine (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1941), 499-600 (Rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965), 499-600); under the full title in The Law of Freedom and Other Writings. Ed. Christopher Hill (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 273-389; and in The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley. Ed. Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes, and David Loewenstein. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2009), 2: 278-404.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lady-Errant. A Tragi-Comedy - William Cartwright (1611-43) (Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1651)
Brief satirical description of an intended women's Parliament in Cyprus when most of the men are absent fighting in a war.
The publication information is from the separate title page for the play in his Comedies Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems. London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1651, which, although it probably had been staged between 1634 and 1637, was the play’s first publication. Rpt. in The Plays and Poems Of William Cartwright. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951), 89-161 with the editor’s “Introduction” (81-88) and “Textual Notes” to the play (575-87).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Female Rebellion: A Tragicomedy. From a MS. In the Hunterian Museum University of Glasgow - [Henry] [Birkhead] 1617?-96) (Printed for Private Circulation, 1650)
The play presents a conflicted Amazonian society where the main body of Amazons plot to overthrow their queen as being too soft. While she is overthrown, she then is restored and marries.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Newes from the New Exchange - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Np, 1650)
Satire on the behavior of women with specific references to individuals. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Reformed School - John Dury (1595-1680) (Ptd. by R.D., 1650)
Presents what the author considers a eutopian school. Authoritarian. Religious instruction central. Educate both boys and girls, but regular stress on the greater need for girls being controlled. Lays out housing, diet, need for cleanliness and exercise. Gives a fairly detailed curriculum.
Rpt. ed. H.M. Knox. Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1958, with an “Introduction” by the Editor (1-17), a Preface by Samuel Hartlib (18-21), “A Supplement to the Reformed School” (67-73), and “Notes” (77-82).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Poore Mans Advocate, or England's Samaritan. Powring Oyle and Vyne into the wounds of the Nation. By making the present Provision for the Souldier and the Poor, by reconciling all Parties. By paying all Arreares to the Parliament Army. All publique Debts, and all the late Kings, Queenes, and Princes Debts due before Session - [Peter] [Chamberlen] (1601-83) (Ptd. for Giles Calvert, 1649)
Eutopia. Better society brought about by nationalizing all unused lands and mines and the remains of the estates of the king, the bishops, and the nobility. The purpose is to provide work for the poor. The author was a physician, a Seventh Day Baptist, and a Fifth Monarchist or a believer, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the "son of man" followed by the physical return of Christ.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Legend of Captaine Iones. Relating His adventure to Sea: His first landing and combate with a mighty Bear. His furious battell with his sixe and thirty men against the Army of eleven Kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable Sea-fight with sixe huge Gallies of Spain, and nine thousand Souldiers. His taking prisoner, and hard usage. Lastly His setting at liberty by the King's command, and return for England. - [David] [Lloyd] (Ptd. by M.F. for Richard Marriot, 1648)
Classic extraordinary voyage with visits to many imaginary countries including, in the second part, paradise. The protagonist also travels to No-land
Rpt. with minor changes in spelling London: Ptd. for Richard Marriot, 1656; and London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1659.
Keywords: Male author

Novae solymae. Libri Sex - [Samuel] [Gott] (1613-71) (Typis Johannis Legati, 1648)
Detailed eutopia with emphases on the family and education for developing good citizens. Jews have been converted. Annual elections. Class distinctions are very strong.
Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum. London: Typis Johannis Legati, 1649. Trans. as Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton. 2nd ed. Ed. and trans. Rev. Walter Begley. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1902. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. Begley includes extensive notes defending his attribution.
Keywords: English author; Male author

An Exact Diurnall of the Parliament of Ladies. Ordered by the Ladyes in Parliament, That they declare the Prince Rupert, Lord Digby, Lord Capell, Lord Cottington, Dr. Williams, Mr. Walter, L. Hopton, L. Culpepper, Dr. Duppa; Sir Greenvill L. Jermine, and Major Gen. Virey, Have all had their Pardons granted to them by this Covrt - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Np, 1647)
Satire on gender relations in which the named men are accused, found guilty, sentenced to various extreme punishments, and then all pardoned. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament. A Continuation of the Parliament of Ladies. Their Votes, Orders, and Declarations. Die Martis August 2, 1647. Ordered by the Ladies assembled in Parliament, that their Votes, Orders, and Declarations, be forthwith Printed and Published. T. Temple. Cler. Mrs Martha Peele Messenger - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Np, 1647)
Satire on contemporary issues, with a focus on religion. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is a sequel to his 1647 The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Parliament of Ladies. Or, Divers remarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled. Vespre Veneris Martis: 16. 1647. Ordered by the Ladies in Parliament Assembled, That their Orders and Votes be forthwith Printed and published, to prevent such misreports and scandals, which either malice, or want of wit, hightned with snoffes of Ale or stayned Claret may cause, in the dishonour of the said Votes and Parliament. Betrice Kingsmill Clar. Parliament - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Np, 1647)
Satire on contemporary society, politics, and gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. His 1647 The Ladies, A Second Time, Assembled in Parliament is a sequel.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Parliament of Ladies With Their Lawes Newly Enacted - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Np, 1647)
Satire on gender relations. One of five related pamphlets by Neville, four in 1647 and one in 1750. This one is somewhat different from the others in that it is set in ancient Rome rather than contemporary Britain. It also includes tradesmen’s wives, while in most of the others, the women are primarily from the aristocracy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sea-Voyage - [John] [Fletcher] (1759-1625); [Philip] [Massinger] (1583-1640) (Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, And now published by the Authors Originall Copies, 1647)
Satire describing an Amazonian society. The play was first performed in 1622. The Sea Voyage originates with Shakespeare's Tempest (1611) and copies some of the scenes and wording. D'Urfey's Commonwealth of Women (1686) is a revision of The Sea Voyage.
Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: The First Printed from the Text, and With the Notes of Peter Whalley; the Latter from the Text, and with the Notes of The Late George Colman, Esq. 4 vols. (London: Ptd. For John Stockdale, 1811), 4: 225-50; in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Gentlemen. All in one volume (London: Ptd. for J. Maddock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679), 339-57; in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher. Ed. Alexander Dyce. 11 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1845): 291-369; in The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Ed. Fredson Bowers (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 9: 1-94 (“Textual Introduction” 3-9; “Textual Notes, etc. 79-94); and in Three Renaissance Travel Plays. The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes. Ed. Anthony Parr (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 135-216.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Abstract or Lawes of New England, As they are now established - [John] [Cotton] (1584-1652) (Ptd. for F. Coules, and W. Ley, 1641)
Detailed eutopia of laws taken from Scripture and for adoption.
Rpt. as An Abstract of Laws and Government: Wherein as in a Mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the Government of Christs Kingdome. Accomodable to any State or form of Government in the world that is not Antichristian or Tyrannicall. Collected and digested into the ensuing Method, by that Godly, Grave and Judicious Divine, Mr. John Cotton of Boston. And now published after his death by William Aspinall. London: Printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655. Rpt. in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 5 (1798): 173-87 (See “To the Reader” by William Aspinwall [187-92]); and in Tracts and Other Papers, relating principally to the origin, Settlement and Progress of the Colonies in North America, from the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776. Comp. Peter Force. 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Ptd. by Wm. Q. Force, 1836-46), 3: No. 9. Rpt. (New York: Peter Smith, 1947), 3: No. 9; and (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1963), 3, No. 9.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

A Description of the famous Kingdome of Macaria; shewing its excellent Government: Wherein The Inhabitants live in great Prosperity, Health, and Happinesse; the King obeyed, the Nobles honoured; and all good men respected, Vice punished, and Vertue rewarded. An Example to other Nations: In a Dialogue between a Schollar and a Traveller - [Gabriel] [Plattes] (d. 1644) (Ptd. for Francis Constable, 1641)
Eutopia. A short dialogue covering economic organization, religion, and some governmental organization. Monarchy with power in a grand or general council or parliament and five under-councils. Government revenues are mostly derived from the king's lands. Practical orientation. Includes a College of Experience similar to Bacon's Salomon's House in his New Atlantis (1627). Macaria means "blessed" or "happy". More used it for a country near Utopia.
Rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 1: 564-69. Collection rpt. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 580-85; as A Facsimile Edition of Samuel Hartlib’s 1641 Pamphlet A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria. Ed. Richard H. Dillon. Sausalito, CA: Élan Under the direction of Wallace Kibbee Corte Madera, CA, 1961, with an unpaged four page “Introduction” by Dillon; in Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning. Ed. Charles Webster (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 79-89; and in Charles Webster, Utopian Planning and the Puritan Revolution: Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Hartlib and “Macaria”. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research Publications II (Oxford, Eng.: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 1979), 65-73 with annotations (74-89).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638 by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street - Richard Brome (1590-1652) (Ptd. by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, 1640)
Comedy in which a man and a woman have their fantasies encouraged. The man's fantasies come mostly from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (14th c). Includes a comedy of reversal in which women rule men and the people rule the magistrates. See also 1652 Brome.
Rpt. London: Ptd. by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, 1646; in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes [225-340]. A Jovial Crew. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966; ed. Anthony Parr in Three Renaissance Travel Plays: The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 217-326; and ed. David Scott Kasan and Richard Proudfoot. New York: Globe Education and Theatre Arts Books/Routledge, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Felicitas Ultimi Saeculi: Epistola In Qua, Inter Alia, Calamitosus aevi praesentis status seriò deploratur, certa felicioris posthac spes ostenditur, & ad promovendum publicum Ecclesiae & Rei literariae bonum omnes excitantur: In gratiam Amici cujusdam paulo ante obitum - John Stoughton (1593-1639) (Typis Richardi Hodgkinson, 1640)
Detailed Protestant eutopia in which the Papacy and its supporters are overthrown, and a premillennial golden age is established. Refers to Francis Bacon (1561-1626), John Dury (1596-1680), and John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský) (1592-1670) as the intellectual leaders of the change.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Paradox. Prooving, That the Inhabitants of the Isle, called Madagascar, or St. Lavrence, (In Temporal Things), are the happiest People in the World. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true Description of that Island: The Nature of the Climate, and condition of the Inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other Nations. With most probable Arguments of a hopefull and fit Plantation of a Colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the Soyle, the benignity of the Ayre, and the relieving of our English Ships, both to and from the East Indies - Wa[lter] Hamond (Ptd. for Nathaniell Butter, 1640)
Eutopia that presents the Noble Savage as being in a better situation than the supposedly civilized.
Rpt. as “A Paradox: Proving the Inhabitants of the Island, called Madagascar; or St. Lawrence (in Things temporal) to be the happiest People in the World.” The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 1: 256-62. Later ed. as The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for John White and John Harding, and John Murray, 1808-13), 1: 263-69; and as “An edition of A paradox prooving that the inhabitants of . . . Madagascar (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Presented by William Webster Newbold.” MA thesis. 2 vols. University of Birmingham--Shakespeare Institute, 1975.
Keywords: Male author

"To Saxham" - Thomas Carew Esquire. One of the Gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber and Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty (1594/95-1639/40) (Poems, 1640)
The country estate Saxham Parva as a eutopia with elements of a cockaigne.
Rpt. in Thomas Carew, Poems. Ed. Arthur Vincent (London: Lawrence & Bullen/New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899), 36-38; and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, with His Masque Coelum Britannicum. Ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1949), 27-29.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Man in the Moone; or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither - [Francis] [Godwin] (1562-1633) (Ptd. by John Norton, 1638)
Eutopia brought about through the innate disposition of the people. Land provides plenty without labor.
Rpt. Melstom, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1971; and in Smith College Studies in Modern Languages 19.1 (October 1937): 1-48; rpt. as The Man in the Moon 1638. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum & New York: Da Capo Press, 1972; as The Man in the Moon. Ed. John Anthony Butler. Vol. 3 of the Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Dovehouse Editions, 1995; and as The Man in the Moone. Ed. William Poole. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2009. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 3-40. Repub. as A View of St. Helena, An Island in the Ethiopian Ocean, in America, now in Possession of the honourable East-India Company, where their Ships usually refresh in their India Voyages. With an account of the admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales [pseud.]; the little Spaniard, to the World in the Moon, by the Help of several Gansas, or Large Geese. An ingenious fancy, written by a late learned Bishop. Np: np. Rpt. in The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Found in the Late Earl of Oxford’s Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes. With a Table of Contents, and an Alphabetical Index 10 vols. (London: Ptd. For T. Osborne, 1744), 8: 332-48. Collection rpt. with minor changes in spelling and punctuation in the later ed. with the subtitle A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, As Well in Manuscript as in Print. Selected from the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Annotations, By William Oldys, and Some Additional Notes by Thomas Park. 10 vols. (London: Ptd. for White and Cochrane, and John Murray, 1808-13), 8: 344-61; and 12 vols. (London: Ptd. for Robert Dutton, 1810), 11: 511-44. This version appears to exist only in The Harleian Miscellany reprints.
Keywords: English author; Male author

New English Canaan or New Canaan. Containing an Abstract of New England, Composed in Three Bookes. The first Booke setting forth the originall of the Natives, their Manners and Customes, together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English. The second Booke setting forth naturall Indowments of the Country, and what staple Commodities it yealdeth. The third Booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their Tenets and practise of their Church - Thomas Morton (c. 1579-1647) (Jacob Frederick, 1637)
Morton founded the colony of Merrymount, located in the area that is now Quincy, Massachusetts, where he developed good relations with the Indians, which drew the ire of the Puritans in Plymouth, who banished Morton, ostensibly for blasphemy and selling weapons to the Indians. Morton then sued the Massachusetts Bay Company and won. This book was a critique of the Puritans and lauded the Indians, presenting them in eutopian terms.
Rpt. in 1 vol. New York: Arno Press, 1972.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A View of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, betweene Eudoxus and Irenæus. By Edmund Spenser, Esq. In the Yeare 1596 - Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) (Ptd. by the Society of Stationers as part of Ancient Irish Histories, 1633)
Apparently intended as a serious analysis of Ireland and its people, it proposes the complete suppression of the Irish people, the expropriation of all the land, exchange of the Irish among counties where they will work for English landlords, slaughter of cattle, and taxing the Irish to pay for the military that will suppress them. Argues that the Irish are descended from the barbarian Scythians and that resisting English law indicates that the Irish are “the lowest form of savages” (Hadfield and Maley ed., xx). Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Rpt. as "A View of the Present State of Ireland." In The Works of Edmund Spenser. A Variorum Edition. Ed. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Frederick Morgan Padelford, and Ray Heffner. Vol. X Spenser’s Prose Works. Ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 39-231 with “Appendix III A View of the Present State of Ireland (497-532); and as A View of the Present State of Ireland. Ed. W. L. Renwick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1970. Critical ed. as A View of the State of Ireland. From the first printed edition (1633). Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. “Ware’s Annotations” (162-69), “Passages Omitted from Ware’s Text” (170-76), “Glossary” (190-92).
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

New Atlantis, A Worke unfinished Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Added to Sylva sylvarium or a Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam. Viscount St. Alban. Published after the Authors death, By William Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships Chaplaine - [Francis] [Bacon] (1561-1626) (J[ohn] H[aviland] for W. Lee, 1627)
Christian eutopia with the emphasis on a traditional paternal family system and science. Continuations include 1660 H., R.; 1936 Samuels-Bacon; and 1942 Samuel. John Heydon (b. 1629) is reported to have republished New Atlantis under his own name with minor changes and with the subtitle or The Voyage to the Land of the Rosicrucians (1660). No copy appears to exist.
In Latin with variant text in a translation that may be by Bacon as Nova Atlantis Fragmentorum alterum. Per Franciscum Baconum, Baronem de Verulamio, Vice-Comitem S. Albani. Londoni: Typis Ioh. Haviland, 1638 in Francisci Baconi, Baronis De Vervlamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Opervm Moralivm Et Civilivm Tomus: Qui continet: Historiam Regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliæ. Sermones Fideles, sive Interiora Rerum. Tractatum de Sapientiâ Veterum. Dialogum de Bello Sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso Honoratissimo Auctore, præterquam in paucis, Latinate donatus. Ed. Guilielmi Rawley (Londin: Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini, 1638), 351-86. There are many reprints of the English original. Among the most important are in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Vol. 5 Philosophical Works. Coll. and ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Robert Denon Heath (New York: Hurst and Houghton, 1864), 355-413 with a “Preface” by Spedding (347-57); New ed. Vol. 3 Philosophical Works (London: Longmans; Simpkin, Marshall; Hamilton; Whittaker; J. Bain; E.H. Hodgson; Richardson; Houston; Bickers; H. Sotheran; J. Cornish & Sons; J. Snow; A. Hall; and Virtue, 1887), 125-66, with “Preface” by Spedding (119-24); in his Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis. Ed. Arthur Johnston (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1974), 213-47, with “Notes” 289-91; in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. [Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 149-86 with “Explanatory Notes” 231-39. Critical ed. in Francis Bacon. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802). Rev. as Francis Bacon: The Major Works including “New Atlantis” and the “Essays”. Ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002), 457-89, with “Notes” (785-802).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fortvnate Isles and Their Vnion celebrated in a Masqve design'd for the Court, on the Twelfth Night. 1624 - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) (np, 1625)
Masque performed before King James I/James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) just before his death. It depicts Britain as one of the Fortunate Isles of classical mythology. One of the islands is Macaria or blessed and is joined to Britain. Includes anti-Rosicrucian satire.
Rpt. in Ben Jonson: Complete Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969), 433-53; in Ben Jonson: Selected Masques. Ed. Stephen Orgel (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), 275-95; and. ed. Martin Butler in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 685-714.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Strange News Out of Divers Countries, Never discovered till of late, by a strange Pilgrime in those parts - [Nicholas] [Breton] (1545-1626) (Ptd. by W. Iones for George Fayerbeard, 1622)
Satire on contemporary society using a series of imaginary countries with their laws and practices. See also 1606 Breton.
Keywords: English author; Male author

["An Utopia of Mine Owne"] "Democritus Iunior to the Reader" - [Robert] [Burton] (1577-1640) (The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes and Severall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with their seuereii Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and, 1621)
A formal, conservative eutopian fragment. Detailed regulation of behavior and a regulated economy. Few laws but those strictly adhered to. Few lawyers and those maintained by the public.
Later eds. have minor variations in the title, and over the various eds. this section tripled in size. Critical ed. as The Anatomy of Melancholy. Ed. Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kessling, & Rhonda L. Blair. Commentary by J.B. Bamborough and Martin Dodsworth. 6 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1989-2000), 1: 85-113 with textual notes 1: 486-97 and commentary 4: 6-168.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Treatise of Paradise. And the Principall contents thereof: Especially Of the greatnesse, situation, beautie, and other properties of that place: of the trees of life, good and euill; of the Serpent, Cherubim, fiery Sword, Mans creation, immortalitie, propagation, stature, age, knowledge, temptation, fall, and exclusion out of Paradise; and consequently of his and our originall sin: with many other difficulties touching these points. Collected out of the holy Scriptures, ancient Fathers, and other both ancient and moderne Writers - [John] [Salkeld] (1576-1660) (Ptd. by Edward Griffin, 1617)
Eden. Pretty much what the title says.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"To Penshurst" - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) (The Forrest.” In The Workes of Benjamin Jonson: neque me vt miretur turba, laboro: contentus paucis lectoribus, 1616)
An English country estate as a eutopia with elements of the cockaigne.
Rpt in in Ben Jonson. Volume VIII The Poems The Prose Works. Ed. C.H. Herford Percy and Evelyn Simpson. Corr. ed. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 93-96; in Poems of Ben Jonson. Ed. George Burke Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955), 76-79; and ed. Colin Barrow in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 209-14.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Tempest - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (Ptd. Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1611)
Includes a very brief description of the Golden Age.
A standard ed. is The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan in The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Ed. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan (London: Methuen Drama, 2011), 1071-95 with a brief editor’s note on 1071. A recent critical ed. is The Tempest. Fully Annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel (xv-xxix). The Annotated Shakespeare. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, with “An Essay by Harold Bloom” (137-48). A critical edition that emphasizes performance history is The Tempest. Ed. David Lindley. Updated ed. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Most Approved, and Long experienced VVater VVorkes. Containing, The manner of Winter and Summer drowning of Medow and Pasture, by the aduantage of the least, Riuer, Brooke, Fount, or Water-prill adiacent; there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more Fertile Ten for One. As also a demonstration of a Proiect, for the great benefit of the Common-wealth generally, but Hereford-shire especially - Rowland Vaughan (1559-1631) (George Eld, 1610)
Plan for a paternalistic eutopia designed to be profit-making in which the author will build a mill, water works, and related buildings and twenty looms that will allow him to provide work for more than two thousand people, a dining room, a chapel, a preacher, and a curate, and also support trades.
Rpt. as His Booke Published 1610. Republished and Prefaced by Ellen Beatrice Wood. London: John Hodge, 1897
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Choice, Chance and Change: or, Conceites in their Colours - [Nicholas] [Breton] (1545-1626) (Imprinted for Nathaniell Fosbrooke, 1606)
Eutopia. A brief dialogue including some satire. Part is on a variety of imaginary countries which have generally good laws. A country is described that has specific laws for relations between neighbors, stating that they should not depend on each other financially and otherwise should treat each other kindly and fairly. There are other rules regarding relations between husbands and wives. Another country is described where the rural population led a simple agricultural life. The cities have detailed laws on personal and business relations. The other parts are not utopian. See also 1622 Breton.
Rpt. as "Choice, Chance and Change" (1606) or Glimpses of "Merry England" in the Olden Time. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Vol. 17 of Occasional Issues of Unique or Very Rare Books. Ed. Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Manchester, Eng.: Ptd. for the Subscribers by Charles E. Simms, 1881.
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Mundus Alter et Idem siue Terra Australis antehac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrime lustrata - [Joseph] [Hall] (1574-1656) (Ascanij de Rinialme [Actually Humphrey Lownes], 1605)
Satire in which the new world is divided into the states of Tenter-belly, with its provinces of, in the Healy trans., Eat-allia (Gluttonia) and Drinke-allia (Quaffonia), Shee-Landt or Womendecoia [with its provinces of Tattlingen, Scoldonna, Blubberick, Giggot-tangier, Cockatrixia, Shrewes-bourg, and Blackswanstack (Modestiania),] Fooliana, and Theeve-ingen, with its provinces of Robberswaldt and Liegerdemaine, which are, in the Wands, trans., Crapulia with its provinces of Pamphagonia (Land of Gluttons) and Yvronia (Drinkers), Viragina (Land of Women) with its regions of Linguadocia, Rixatia, Ploravia, Isia major and Risia minor, Aphrodysia, Amazonia (Gender reversal), and Eugynia with Hermaphroditica Island is nearby, Moronia (Stupid), Lavernia (Rogues & thieves).
Rpt. in Mundus alter et idem. Sive Terra Australis antehac semper incogita; longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrimè lustrate. Authore Mercurio Britannico [pseud.]. Accessit propter assinitatem materiæ Thomæ Campanellæ, Civitas Solis. Et Nova Atlantis. Franc. Baconis, Bar. de Verulamio. Np: Apud Joannem à Waesberge, 1643. The three items are separately paged. Trans. as The Discovery of A New World or A Description of the South Indies, Hetherto Unknowne. By An English Mercury [pseud.]. [Trans. John Healey]. [London:] Imprinted by G. Eld for Ed. Blount and W. Barrett, [1609]. Rpt. ed. Huntington Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937. New trans. and critical ed. as Another World and Yet the Same: Bishop Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem. Trans. and ed. John Millar Wands. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981 with a "Commentary" (127-200). Repub. rev. with erotic content as Psittacorum Regio. The Land of Parrots: Or, The She-lands. With A Description of other strange adjacent Countries, in the Dominions of Prince De L'Amour, not hitherto found in any Geographical Map. By One of the Late Most Reputed Wits [pseud.]. London: Ptd. for F. Kirkman, 1669; and as The Travels of Don Francisco De Quevedo Through Terra Australis Incognita. Discovering the Laws, Customs, Manners and Fashions Of The South Indians. A Novel. Originally in Spanish. London: Ptd. for William Crantham, 1684.
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The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia - Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) (William Ponsonbie, 1590)
Arcadian, sentimental eutopia with the emphasis on romance and knightly virtue.
While this is the standard, often reprinted text, it is deeply flawed. See The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The Old Arcadia). Ed. Jean Robertson. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1973, with a “General Introduction” (xv-xli) and a “Textual Introduction” (xlii-lxxii); Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1985, with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxiv); Reissued with a new bibliography, 1994; and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The New Arcadia). Ed. Victor Skretowicz. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987, with “Textual Introduction” (liii-lxxxii) and “Commentary” (507-82).
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The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discoverie, or Briefe Summarie of such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ILANDE called AILGNA: Together, with most fearefull Examples of Gods Iudgements, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in AILGNA of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie Godly, to be read of all true Christians euerie where: but most needefull to be regarded in ENGLANDE - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) (Richard Iones, 1583)
Satire on England using the imaginary country approach. Stubbes begins his attack by focusing on pride and a lengthy critique of the clothes worn by both men and women. He then moves on to sexual relations, eating and drinking, usury, Sabbath-breaking, and other topics. Generally read as anti-theatre. See also 1583 Stubbes. The Second part.
This ed. was published May 1 and was rpt. ed. John Payne Collier. London, 1870, with an “Introduction” by the editor (i-ii); and New York: Garland, 1973, with a “Preface(5-7)” by Andrew Freeman. A variant issue dated May 29. A 2nd ed. was published August 16 and a 3rd ed. on October 12, 1584, with a variant issue of the 3rd in 1585, all with minor variations in the title. The 1585 ed. was rpt. as The anatomie of abuses by Philip Stubbes; reprinted from the third edition of 1585 under the superintendence of William B.D.D. Turnbull. London: W. Pickering, 1836. with “Prefatory Remarks” by Turnbull (v-xi). The 4th and final ed. eliminates the pretense of the book being about an imaginary country, and is entitled The Anatomie of Abuses. Containing A Description of such notable Vices, as raigne in many Countries of the world, but especiallie in the Realme of England: Together with most fearefull examples of Gods heauie Iudgements inflicted vpon the wicked for the same as well in England of late, as in other places else where. Verie godly to be read by all true Christians euery where, but most chiefly, to bee regarded in England. Made dialogue-wise by Phillip Stubs, <st2:place w:st="on">Gent</st2:place>. Now, the fourth time, newly corrected and enlarged by the same Author. London: Imprinted by Richard Iones, 1595. Rpt. as Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere’s Youth, A.D. 1583. <st1:sn w:st="on"><st2:place w:st="on">Part</st2:place> <st1:sn w:st="on">I.</st1:sn></st1:sn> (Collated with Other Editions in 1583, 1585, and 1595.) With Extracts from Stubbes’s Life of His Wife, 1591, and his Perfect Pathway to Felicitie, 1592 (1610), and B.P. Babington on the Ten Commandments, 1588; also the Fourth Book of Thomas Kirchmaier’s (or Naogeorgus’s) Regnum Papismi, or Popish Kingdome, (Englisht by Barnabe Googe, 1570,) on Popular and Popish Superstitions in 1553. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1877-9 (LLL); and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum/New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. A critical ed. of the 4th ed. was published ed. Margaret Jane Kidnie. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 2002.
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The Second part of the Anatomie of Abuses, conteining The Display of Corruptions, with a perfect description of such imperfections, blemishes and abuses, as now reigning in euerie degree, require reformation for feare of Gods vengeance to be powred vpon the people and countrie, without speedie repentance and conuersion vnto God: made dialogwise by Phillip Stubbs. - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) (Ptd. by R[oger] W[ard] for William Wright, 1583)
Continuation of 1583 Stubbes published six months after the first part and divided into abuses of temporality and spirituality. The former includes a continuation of the critique of fashion, but stresses is more concerned with law, education, trade, poor relief, farming, and so forth. The latter attacks the church. The running head is "The display of Corruptions," which gives a generally accurate idea of the contents.
Rpt. of an abbreviated ed. as Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere's Youth, A.D. 1583. Part II. The Display of Corruptions Requiring Reformation. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1882 (LLL); and as The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses. New York: Garland, 1973, with a "Preface" by Arthur Freeman (5-6).
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The Second part and Knitting up of the Boke entituled Too good to be true. Wherein is continued the discourse of the wonderfull Lawes, commendable customes, and strange manners of the people of Mauqsun - Thomas Lupton (fl. 1572-84). (Ptd. by Henry Binneman, 1581)
Continuation of 1580 Lupton. Anti-Roman Catholic with an emphasis on landlord-tenant relations. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere.
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Siuqila. Too Good, to be true: Omen. Though so at a vewe, Yet all that I tolde you, Is true, I upholde you: Now cease to aske why For I can not lye. Herein is shewed by waye of Dialogue, the wonderfull maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not frivolous - [Thomas] [Lupton] (fl. 1572-84) (Henrie Bynneman, 1580)
Standard Christian eutopia. Very similar to 1516 More. Emphasis on the hierarchical nature of society and the responsibility of the superior for the inferior. Very strong concern with the purity and obedience of women. Stresses quick and sure punishment as the means of social control. Siuqila = Aliquis = Anyone. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere. See also 1581 Lupton.
[2nd ed.] London: Henry Bynneman, 1584. [3rd ed.] London: Abel Ieffs, 1587.
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A Pleasant Dialogue betweene a Lady called Listra, and a Pilgrim. Concerning the gouernment and common weale of the great province of Crangalor. 1579 - T[homas] N[icholas] (Iohn Charlewood, 1579)
Eutopia. A small town of good Christians emphasing piety, equity and honesty. There is a godly prince, humble nobility, obedient citizens, and a good clergy. See also 1579 [Nicholas], The second part.
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The second part of the painefull Iorney of the poore Pylgrime into Asia, and the straynge woonders that he sawe: Both delectable and profytable, in sequell of the lytle Dialogue, betweene Lady Lystra, and the same Pilgrime, 1579 - T[homas] N[icholas] (Iohn Charlewood, 1579)
Continuation of 1579 [Nicholas], A Pleasant Dialogue with the same characteristics.
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A Dialogue both pleasante and pietifull, wherein is a godly regimente against the fever Pestilence with a consolacion and comfort against death - William Bullein (1500-76) (Iohn Kingston, 1573)
Includes a brief eutopia (105-11 of the 1888 Early English Text Society edition) describing a reformed Protestant society in Taerg Natrib (Great Britain) and its capitol city Nodnol (London) or Ecnatneper (Repentance).
Rpt. as Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence. From the edition of 1578, collated with the earlier editions of 1564 and 1573. Ed. Mark W. Bullen and A.H. Bullen. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1888. Early English Text Society. Extra Series, Vol. 52. Rpt. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
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A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Maystet [sic] R.C. Esquire: vvherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne - Thomas Smith (1513-77) (Ptd. by Henry Binneman for Anthonhson [i.e. Anthony Kitson], 1572)
The work uses the word “eutopia” in discussing a plan for the colonization of the Ards Peninsula of Ireland and designed to recruit appropriate colonizers. Published at the end of the book is The offer and order giuen for the by Sir Thomas Smythe Knighte and Thomas Smythe his sonne, unto suche as be willing to accompanie the sayd Thomas Smythe the sonne, in his voyage for the inhabiting some partes of the north of Irelande. London; Ptd. by Henry Binneman for Anthonhson, nd. 8 pp. Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.
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Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festivus de optimo reip[ublicae] statu, deq[ue] noua Insula Vtopia - Thomas More (1478-1535) (Arte Theodorice Martini, 1516)
The classic work presenting a better society on an isolated island and commenting on the current situation in England.
The first English translation was published as A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. Trans. Ralphe Robynson. London: Ptd. by Abraham Vele, 1551. For early editions and translations, see R.W. Gibson, comp. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of His Works and Moreana to the Year 1750 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961), 3-57; and Constance Smith, An Updating of R.W. Gibson’s St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography. Sixteenth Century Bibliography, No. 20 (St. Louis, MO: Center for Reformation Research, 1981), 20-29. For a consideration of some translations, see Elizabeth McCutcheon, “Ten English Translations/Editions of Thomas More’s Utopia.” Utopian Studies 3.2 (1992): 102-20. Important recent eds. are Utopia. Vol. 4 of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Ed. Edward Surtz, S.J. and J.H. Hexter. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965 [The trans. is based on the 1923 trans. by G.C. Richards] with an Introduction” by the editors (xv-cxciv), “Commentary” (255-70, 585), “More’s Visit to Antwerp in 1515” by Hexter (571-76), “Vocabulary and Diction in Utopia” by Surtz (577-82), and an Index (587-629); Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation. Ed. George M. Logan, Robert M. Adams, and Clarence M. Miller. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Utopia. Ed. and trans. David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999 with an “Introduction” by Wootton (1-37); “Utopia” in Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1-148 with and “Introduction” to all three texts (ix-lxi) and “Explanatory Notes” to Utopia (213-31); Utopia. Trans. Paul Turner. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 2003 with an “Introduction” by Turner (xi-xxviii), “Appendix: More’s Attitude to Communism” (114-17), “Glossary” (118-20), and “Notes” (121-35); Utopia A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. and with a rev. trans. by George M. Logan. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011; Utopia. Trans. Clarence H. Miller. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), “Notes” (141-162), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (163-165); and an Index (167-173); 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014, with the same “Introduction” by Miller (vii-xxiii), “A Chronology of More’s Life” (xxv-xxxviii), an “Afterword” by Jerry Harp (141-60), “Notes” (161-187), “Suggestions for Further Reading” Updated by Jerry Harp (189-194), and an Index (195-201); Utopia. Trans. and ed. by Dominic Baker-Smith. London: Penguin Books, 2012 with an “Introduction” by the editor (xi-xxxix), “Appendix 1 ‘Between friends all is common’ (123-25), “Appendix 2 An Account of the Taíno People” (127-29), “Glossary of Names: (131-32), and “Notes” (132-46); as Open/Utopia. Ed. Stephen Duncome. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2012, with an editor’s “Preface Intellectual Commons” (v-vii), “Introduction” (ix-lxv), a “Cast of Contributors” (23-34), “Sources’ (235-40), footnotes throughout the text, and the translation is “assembled from translations and editions of More’s Utopia that are in the public domain (v); Utopia. Ed. George M. Logan and trans. Robert M. Adams. 3rd ed. Cambridge Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2016, with “Ancillary materials from the first four editions: (114-35), introductory material by the editor (vii-xli), and an “index” (136-41); as Utopia The Island of Nowhere. Trans. Roger Clarke. Richmond, Eng.: Alma Classics, 2017, with “A Pen Portrait of Thomas More by His Friend Desiderius Erasmus” (vii-xvii), “Correspondence Relevant to Utopia and Other Contributions from More’s Contemporaries” (133-92), “Index of Contemporary Europeans Mentioned in Utopia and Related Documents” (193-205), “Index of Utopian and Other Exotic Names” (206-208), “Notes” (209-44), and “Extra Material on Thomas More’s Utopia (245-65); based on the March 1518 edition with the two books using Clarence H. Miller’s New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001 translation and the all other material using the translations in the 1965 Collected Works. In The Essential Works of Thomas More. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer and Stephen W. Smith (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), 143-215, with an introduction on 141-42; and, also using the March 1518 edition, Utopia & Selected Epigrams. Utopia. Trans. Gerald Malsbary. Epigrams. Trans. Bradley Ritter, Carl Young, and Erik. Ellis. Ed. Gerard B. Wegemer Stephen W. Smith (Dallas, TX: CTMS Publisher at the University of Dallas, 2020, with “Notes and Commentary” on 115-62. https://thomasmorestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Utopia-Selected-Epigram-Notes-11-23-2020-compressed.pdf. An edition using a 1901 translation by Gilbert Burnet (London: Verso, 2016), includes an “Introduction” by China Miéville (1-27), part of which, “The Limits of Utopia” (11-27) was originally published in Salvage #1: Amid This Story Rubbish (2015) and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin (161-216), parts of which were originally published  as “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be (1982).” The Yale Review 72 (Winter 1983): 161-80, Rpt. with (1983) at the end of the title in her Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (New York: Grove Press, 1989), 80-100; and “The Operating Instructions.” The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2004), 206-10. [Book Two] rpt. with no indication of the translation used in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 231-91.
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