The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) (Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852)
The classic novel based on the U.S. intentional community Brook Farm.
Critical ed. in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Fredson Bowers (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1964), 3: 1-298. This ed. rpt. as The Blithedale Romance: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. Ed. Seymour Gross and Rosalie Murphy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1978), 1-228 with essays related to the novel; without the textual apparatus, ed. William E. Cain (Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 37-218 with material providing a context for the novel; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983; and Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 with an “Introduction” by Robert S. Levine (ix-xxix).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Geral-Milco; or The Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis With Map and Illustrations - A. R. Middletoun Payne (Charles B. Norton, 1852)
A detailed eutopia in the mountains of Brazil that was established by Aztecs and Incas fleeing the Spanish conquest and generally based on what was known of these civilizations at the time; somewhat romanticized.
Later ed. without the author's name entitled Rambles in Brazil, or, A Peep at the Aztecs. By One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]. 2nd ed. New York: C.B. Norton, 1854.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Island Home: or the Young Cast-aways - [James F.] [Bowman] (1826-82) (Gould & Lincoln, 1852)
An adventure novel for boys in which a group of young castaways face many trials and tribulations before meeting and assisting some friendly natives and leaving their isolated island to live with them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Life and Adventures of Capt. Jacob D. Armstrong - [Nathaniel Cook] [Meeker] [supposed author] (1817-79) (DeWitt & Davenport, 1852)
Eutopia. A ship wrecks on the island of Nede, which is inhabited by simple people (with no secondary sexual characteristics), who live a happy life of idleness in complete equality. Vegetarian; work to grow food. Perpetual Spring. No snakes. No religion. An elaborate funeral ritual is described. The discovery of iron leads the shipwrecked sailors to introduce the dystopian modern world of work, money, theft, law, government, newspapers, and alcohol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Reel in a Bottle, for Jack in the Doldrums; being The Adventures of Two of the King's Seaman in A Voyage to the Celestial Country. Edited from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt - [George Barrell] [Cheever] (1807-90) (Charles Scribner, 1852)
Standard Christian allegory using various imaginary countries en route to the eutopia of Heaven.
3rd ed. under the author’s name as A Voyage to the Celestial Country, Being the Reel in a Bottle, from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt; An Allegory. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1853. Later ed. under the author’s name as The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country. A Christian Allegory of the Sea. New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1885. U.K. ed. as Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; Under the Similitude of a Voyage to the Celestial Land. Glasgow, Scot.: William Collins, [1852].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gulliver Joi: His Three Voyages; Being an Account of His Marvelous Adventures in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario - Elbert Perce (ed.) [written by] (1831-69) (Charles Scribner, 1851)
Gulliveriana. Kailoo is an Earth-like planet that travels very rapidly around its sun, and the people are also speeded up with lives that are correspondingly short, except for the royal family, which lives longer, to the equivalent of thirty. The Earth is Kailoo's moon. In Hydrogenia air is used like water on Earth, and water is a stimulant like alcohol. The people are much larger than humans. In Ejario women are stronger, more active, and braver than men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Island of Life: An Allegory - [Frederic] [Gardiner] (1822-89) (James Munroe, 1851)
Christian allegory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rambles in Chili, and Life Among the Auracanian Indians, in 1836 - [George] [Prince] (1817-1907) (D.J. Starrett, 1851)
The Indians are described in eutopian terms as Noble Savages.
Originally serialized in the Lincoln Miscellany (Thomaston, ME).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Vision of Our Country in the Year Nineteen Hundred" - Miss J[ane] A. E[llis] (The Western Literary Magazine and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and Morals (Columbus, OH), 1851)
Eutopia set at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The U.S. includes all North and South America. Population growth through immigration and the country is well-settled. Churches everywhere but without denominational differences. More and better education, particularly at the post-secondary level. Equality. Invention and significant advances in the sciences. No prejudice. A congress of nations settles disputes among countries. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region - [George Washington] [Peck] (1817-59) (Baker and Scribner, 1849)
Eutopia. City of gold in the mountains of California inhabited by Caucasians where gold is treated as a common stone and for pots and pans and is used as building material. Religious. Hereditary monarchy. Common law. Everyone gets along.
Rpt. as Aurifodina or Adventures in the Gold Region a fantastical ’49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigly [G.W. Peck]. San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: An Autobiography of Jonathan Romer - W[illiam] S[tarbuck] Mayo M.D. (ed.) [written by] (1812-1895) (George P. Putnam, 1849)
Chapter 48 (456-468) describes a eutopian city (Killoam) in Africa that is particularly concerned with health and cleanliness. Quadrangular houses of two stories with a central courtyard with a fountain and roof gardens. Streets are swept and washed daily (459). Elaborate sewage system (460-461). Food going to market inspected to ensure quality (461). Bathing is required at least once a month, and free municipals baths are provided (462) although there is a small charge for heated water. No overcrowded housing (462).
U.K. ed. London: George Routledge & Co., 1851. Rpt. as Kaloolah: The Adventures Of Jonathan Romer. The Framazudga Edition. Illus. Fredericks. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1887.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Harper & Brothers, 1849)
Mardi is the most complex of Melville's early novels and includes some elements of the South Seas island eutopia, fantasy, and political satire using thinly disguised imaginary countries.
U.K. ed. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Rpt. ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 3 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston and Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mellonta Tauta" - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) (Godey's Lady's (Philadelphia, PA), 1849)
Satire on a future which is technologically advanced but with individualism and democracy gone.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories Science Fiction 8.7 (November 1933): 124-32; in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Sketches 1843-1849. Ed. Thomas Olive Mabbott with the assistance of Eleanor D. Kewer and Maureen C. Mabbott (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 1291-1305 with editorial notes on 1305-09; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 69-72 with an editor’s note on 69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Peter Schlemihl in America - [George] [Wood] (1799-1870) (Carey and Hart, 1848)
Mostly social commentary with a lot of material on religion, but also includes fictional Fourierist communities and discussion of Fourierism.
Some was originally published as by Peter Schemil [pseud.]. “Lights and Shadows of Fashionable Life.” The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 27.2 - 28.2 (February - August 1846): 128-38, 215-27, 319-35, 425-36, 485-501; 15-24, 115-32; and with some of the same characters as “On Oratorios in New York” by Frank Williamson [pseud.]. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 30.6 (December 1847): 527-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sequel to the 'Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'" - [Jane Sophia] [Appleton] (1816-84) (Voices from the Kenduskeag, 1848)
Eutopia written in response to 1848 Kent. Women are no longer dependent on men. Whether to marry or not is a free choice. Women have equal rights and opportunities. Women participate fully in the intellectual life of the community.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 49-64 with an editor’s note on 49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Vision of Bangor, in the Twentieth Century" - [Edward] [Kent] (1802-77) (Voices from the Kenduskeag, 1848)
Eutopia presented as recording a dream of Bangor in 1978. Some satire. South America now part of the U.S., which has fifty-six states. No slavery. Temperance, traditional gender-roles. No writing. See also 1848 Appleton, which responds to Kent's treatment of women.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. Also rpt. in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 124-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak. A Tale of the Pacific - [James Fenimore] [Cooper] (1789-1851) (Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1847)
Mostly a dull adventure story that includes a conservative eutopia stressing a natural aristocracy.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke & Co., [1880]; and as The Crater or Vulcan’s Peak. In The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. Otsego Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1905]; and Ed. Thomas Philbrick. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. U.K. ed. as Mark’s Reef; or, The Crater. A Tale of the Pacific. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1847.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind. In Three Parts. Part First. Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed, morality will bloom with an or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. Part Second. Reason is a flower of the spirit, and its fragrance is liberty and knowledge. Part Third. When distributive justice pervades the social world, virtue and morality will bloom with an immortal beauty; while the Sun of Righteousness will arise in the horizon of universal industry, and shed its genial rays over all the fields of peace, plenty, and human happiness! - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) (Published by S.S. Lyon and Wm. Fishbough, 1847)
Includes a detailed eutopia based on cooperation at the end of an exposition of Davis's theology and world view. See also 1874 and 1878 Davis.
32nd ed. Boston, MA: William White & Co., 1871.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Scientific Division and Nomenclature of the Earth, and Particularly the Territory of the United States into States, Counties, Townships, Farms and Lots; for Promoting the Equality, Individuality and Inalienableness of Man's Rights to Sovereignty, Life, Labor and Domain, While at the Same Time it Constitutes a Scientific Geography of the Earth: Also a Constitution for Nebrashevil [Nebraska] or Any Other State: For the Consideration of National Reformers and Other Statesmen - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) (Office of "Young America", 1847)
Eutopia. The bulk of this brief pamphlet is concerned with nomenclature and the division of the world into equal areas, but it includes a short constitution that specifies, among other things, that each individual be given a plot of land and a plan for settlement. See also 1877 and 1884 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC). .
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sixty Years Hence - [Charles Frederick] [Henningsen] (1815-77) (T.C. Newby, 1847)
Largely a satire on the manners and customs of the near future but includes a dystopian element--a despotic government and its overthrow.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Social Re-organization" - John Orvis (1816-97) (The Harbinger, 1847)
Most of the material is a critique of the present, but it also details aspects of the eutopia that Association would produce.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Henry Russell; or, The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand (William H. Graham, 1846)
Future eutopia that begins in an intentional community based loosely on the ideas of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and ends by being established worldwide.
Keywords: US author

Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (John Murray, 1846)
Eutopia set on an island in the South Pacific where Melville was held captive. It depicts the happy, seemingly innocent natives, who are also cannibals, and thus resonates with both Michel Montaigne's (1533-92) "De Cannibales" (1580) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-78) argument against civilized behavior. Melville's Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) was presented as a sequel, but it has little that can be called utopian. See also his 1849 Melville.
Rpt. as Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas With Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet. 2 vols. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; The Revised Edition, With a Sequel. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee; or, A Narrative of a Four Month’s Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1847; Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; Typee: A Peep at Polynesan Life During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. [Luke, MD]: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., 1962; Typee, a Peep at Polynesian Life. Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 1 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968; and Typee: Complete Text with Introduction Historical Contexts Critical Essays. Ed. Geoffrey Sanborn. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi - [Sylvester] [Judd] (1813-53) (Jordan and Wiley, 1845)
Small town Christian eutopia. Margaret grows up an educated child of nature, meets a good Christian, and is transformed. Christianity and love are capable of producing eutopia, but they also had much wealth. Temperance.
Rev. ed. 2 vols. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851; rpt. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857. Rpt. in a one vol. ed. without the second subtitle. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1871; rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1891; and Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968.
Keywords: US author

Emigration to the Tropical World, for the Melioration of all Classes of People of all Nations - John A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) (The Concordium, 1844)
One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology, in this case to be realized in Venezuela where, he says, he has obtained a grant of land. Here Etzler gives an address in London. Etzler also published a four page Synopsis of Etzler's Plan of Emigration to Venezuela. Newcastle, Eng.: W.W. Leighton, Printer, 1844; rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 that summarizes the proposal. On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 Etzler and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

My First and Last Book. A Book for the Crisis and A Crisis for the Book - A Plain Man, A native of Massachusetts (Np, 1844)
All humans belong to one universal brotherhood. Marriage for life between one man and one woman. Sex only for reproduction. Extended childhood under parents' care. “The child then becomes a member of the common brotherhood or community, where through the whole there is impartial, social sympathy and equal love, and in which there is a perfect supply of all the wants of every member, and all the means essential to a perfect developement [sic] of character” (15). Common property. If people life correctly, they will have no need of doctors. Good food, fruit and vegetables being the best, clean air, regular exercise; mentions no corsets for women. No need for clergy. Lays out a new calendar (48-51).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime - George Lippard (1822-1854) (G.B. Zieber & Co., 1844)
Mostly a sensational novel as reflected in the title, that, in the “Preface to this Edition,” the author says describes “all the phases of a corrupt social system, as manifested in the city of Philadelphia. There is a brief dystopia, “The Last Says of the Quaker City” (372-93), and a brief eutopia, “The Temple of Ravoni” (525-37). On these utopian dimensions, see Nathaniel Williams, “George Lippard’s Fragile Utopian Future and 1840s American Economic Turmoil.” Utopian Studies 24.2 (2013): 166-83.
Rpt. as The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime. With Illustrations, and the Author’s Portrait and Autograph. Philadelphia, PA: Leary, Stuart, & Co., [1876], with the author’s “Preface to this Edition” (1-2). Rpt. as The Monks of Monk Hall. New York: Odyssey Press 1970 with an “Introduction by Leslie Fiedler (vii-xxxii). Rpt. ed. David S. Reynolds (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Reynolds (vii-xliv).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler, (Author of the Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, By Powers of Nature and Machinery, and Other Writings Connected Therewith.) A Revelation of Futurity - J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) (The Concordium, 1844)
One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. These "visions" are very general and include considerable complaint about having been ignored. At the end he says that whether or not he gains support he will emigrate "to found a paradise in the tropical world". On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Emigration to the Tropical World.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Dialogue on Etzler's Paradise Between Messrs. Clear, Flat, Dunce, and Grudge. By The Author of "Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery".-- Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers."--and the Invention of the Naval Automaton, Etc., Etc. - [John Adolphus] [Etzler] (1791?-1846?) (James B. O'Brien, 1843)
One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. Clear defends Etzler from attacks by the others.  On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1844 (2) Etzler.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

The Amazonian Republic Recently Discovered in the Interior of Peru. By Ex-Midshipman Timothy Savage, B.C. Member of the Philosophical Society of Baltimore and of the Antiquarian Academy of Staten Island - Timothy Savage [pseud?] (Samuel Colman, 1842)
Primarily a utopian satire. A developed country with the government the same as the United States. Effeminate men. Some material on a new religion.
Rpt. as The Amazonian Republic (1842). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Joel Nydahl (v-xvi). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976.
Keywords: US author

A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American - John Francis Bray (1809-97) (Lawrence and Wishart, 1842)
Satire on contemporary nations.
Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

A Century Hence or, A Romance of 1941 - George Tucker (1775-1861) (University Press of Virginia, 1841)
The novel is mildly dystopian and emphasizes the effects of overpopulation stressing problems related to food production, unemployment, and the quality of life. In New York City, people live on sampans. In England, there is no uncultivated land left, and in Asia the situation is worse. There are various proposals to reduce population growth, including birth control and delaying marriage with a tax on those who marry young. Also depicts the advancement of women in Europe, where they are physicians and preachers, but not in the U.S., which has not changed. Some on international relations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Social Destiny of Man: or, Association and Reorganization of Industry - Albert Brisbane 1809-1890) (C. F. Stollmeyer, 1840)
The book is a very detailed presentation of life under Association in a Fourierist Phalanx, much of it taken directly from Fourier. The author is known as the primary popularizer in the United States of the ideas of Charles Fourier (1772-1837).
Rpt. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968; and New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

L.... A... T... to his fellow citizens of the United States of America; and Through Their Medium, To All His Other Human Beings on Earth, Not Any Where Else! - Louis Anastasius Tarascon (1759-1840) (H. D. Robinson, 1837)
Eutopia. Argues that an intentional community to be called Startspoint should be founded on the Upper Mississippi (called the Missouri in the text), and presents detailed regulations of life in it, including the structure and rules of the community (Magazine of History 23-32), and a description of the daily life (32-37), which is very organized and highly structured. Later communities further West will be established called, in order, Union and Perfection. Earlier the author had published L. A. Tarascon, To His Friends, &c. &c. &c. Louisville, KY: Np, 1836. 14 pp., which suggests the establishment such a community but without any social details. See also his 1836 Republican Education, the 2nd ed. of which is printed in this book.
Rpt. in Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (New York), no. 148 (1929): 5-42.
Keywords: French author; Male author; US author

The Partisan Leader. A Tale of the Future - [Nathaniel Beverley] [Tucker] (1784-1851) ([Duff Green], 1836)
Rpt. as by Beverley Tucker of Virginia. The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. 2 vols. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861; reissued as 2 vols. in 1 in 1861; rpt. Richmond, VA: West and Johnson, 1862; rpt. as The Partisan Leader. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, with a “Preface” (vii) and an “Introduction” (ix-xxxiv), and “Notes” (275-77) by the editor; and as The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States but Afterwards Suppressed [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968, with a brief biography of Tucker (unpaged); and from the 3rd impression of the as by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971 with an “Introduction” (vii-xxiii) by C. Hugh Holman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Republican Education, and Gradual Western March, of Enlightened, Laborious, Virtuous, and Happy Generations, from All the Present and Future United Sates and Territories of North America Through Their Rocky Mountains, To Their North-West Coasts on the Pacific Ocean; whence, in time, Further On--The Only Means, Not Only of Extending Knowledge and Happiness All Around the Whole Earth, but, the Only One, Also, of Maintaining Their Union: nay, more, the Only One of Maintaining Any One of Their Republics - Louis Anastasius Tarascon (1759-1840) (Ptd. S. Penn, Jr., 1836)
A detailed description of the settlements he hopes will be established with a stress on education (15-16) and a description of “Regular Daily Life” (16-23). See also 1837 Tarascon, which reprints the 2nd ed. of this book. The author was born in France and moved to the U.S. in 1794, where he became a successful businessman.
2nd ed. rpt. in his L.... A... T... to his fellow citizens of the United States of America; and Through Their Medium, To All His Other Human Beings on Earth, Not Any Where Else! New York: H.D. Robinson. Rpt. in Magazine of History With Notes and Queries (New York), no. 148 (1929): 5-42.
Keywords: French author; Male author; US author

"Three Hundred Years Hence" - [Mary] [Griffith] (1800?-46) (Camperdown; or, News from Our Neighborhood: Being Sketches, 1836)
Eutopia. A strict, reformed society brought about by the economic equality of women. Technologically advanced. Clergy hired for life and in most jobs and professions people remain rather than move for advancement or more money. Literature censured.
Rpt. under the title of the utopia Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1950; [Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975], with an “Introduction” by Nelson F. Adkins rev. from its original publication as “An Early American Story of Utopia.” Colophon, ns 1 (July 1935): 123-32; rpt. from the original in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 31-48 with an editor’s note on 29-30. The Prime Press ed. has many typographical errors.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Monikins - [James Fenimore] [Cooper] (1789-1851) (Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835)
Utopian satire using a society of monkeys to comment on human foibles.
Rpt. in 1 vol. ed. James S. Hedges. Albany, NY: New College and University Press, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Year of our Lord 19-- - Oliver Bolokitten, Esq. [pseud.] (Author, 1835)
Racist dystopia.
Keywords: US author

The United Worlds: A Poem in Fifty Seven Books - [General] [Nathaniel] [King] (1767-1848) (Printed for the Proprietor. Smith Press, 1834)
On the first page, the author says, “The writer of this poem aims at the moral improvement of the reader. Chiefly he would inculcate the love of civil and religious liberty,--of justice,--of peace and mercy,--of temperance. These virtues cannot come single. He would also encourage public enterprise--ardor in undertaking, and perseverance in accomplishing.” Using the theory of John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), the interior of the Earth immediately under America consists of six concentric Orbs that have been linked by roads and bridges and has a democratically elected government with representatives from each Orb. It is inhabited by peaceful people descended from Noah who have advanced technology based on advanced steam technology, including giant machines “in the form of man” called Androides (34-35). The capitol, Golden City, is located directly under corrupt New York. The Subterraneans meet with a Christian missionary and are converted. They meet in a great conclave and conclude that they should bring peace to the surface. They meet in Washington and an agreement is reached, which is then undermined by a group of conspirators. War follows, which the Subterraneans win. Delegates from all nations and regions of the surface convene and adopt a Constitution for the United Worlds that includes two legislative branches and an elective Chief with no veto. No despotism, no slavery. “Peace, truth, right, temperance, pureness, mercy’s reign/These the world’s order that the law sustain” (248). The Copy of the book at the University of Virginia is from the granddaughter of Nathaniel King and is inscribed as from grandfather.
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The Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. An Address To All Intelligent Men. In Two Parts - J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) (Etzler and Reinhold, 1833)
The basic work of Etzler's many depicting eutopia through technology but that include descriptions of the better life that will be achieved through the use of the technology. There is considerable description of the technology involved, including wind, tidal, wave, and solar power. On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1843 and 1844 (2) Etzler.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged. U.K. ed. London: J. Brooks, 1836. 2nd English ed. London: Ptd. by and pub. by J. Cleave, 1842.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

A Voyage to the Island of Philosophers. Part 1st, Containing an account of the Island and its Inhabitants, together with the Incidents which occurred there, during the sojourn of the Writer. Veni, Vidi, Scripsi - Caesario San Blas, Bachelor [pseud.] (np, 1830)
Satire on philosophers in a visit to an isolated island. Diversity of dress and architecture. City moated and walled to keep cattle from disturbing the reflections of the philosophers. Rampant hypochondria. No women or children, and the absence of women is considered essential. At the end the philosophers think that they are threatened by Amazons from another island; it is not clear whether or not they are.
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The Humours of Eutopia. A Tale of Colonial Times - [Ezekial] [Sanford] (Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828)
Includes a small section (1: 18-41) on an ideal religious community.
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A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians - George Tucker (1775-1861) (Elam Bliss, 1827)
Mostly satire but includes a eutopia called Okalbia, meaning Happy Valley, that is almost self-sufficient and has little outside contact. People marry young and limit family size to means. Traditional gender roles. See also 1841 Tucker.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with a brief “Preface” (vii-ix) by David G. Hartwell and reprinting  (267-94) an anonymous review from the American Quarterly Review (Philadelphia, PA), no. 5 (March 1828): 61-88.
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"The Man Machine; or, the Pupil of 'Circumstances'" - [James Kirke] [Paulding] (1778-1860) (The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham, 1826)
Dystopia attacking Robert Owen (1771-1858) citing his New View of Society (1813). A cotton mill run on what are described as Owen's principles is designed to treat the "Man Machine", including children, in such a way as to produce the greatest profits for the proprietor. Equality was the rule, and care was provided for children and seniors. Life was machine-like with everyone working long hours and eating and sleeping on schedule. But "human nature" manifested itself in pride and envy. The story then traces other failed attempts to apply Owen's principles. The stories told by the second and third wise men of Gotham, "The Perfection of Reason" (143-233) and "The Perfection of Science" (235-324), present other failed attempts at human betterment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

John Bull in America; or, the New Munchausen - [James Kirke] [Paulding] (1778-1860) (Charles Wiley, 1825)
Satire on the U.S., particularly democracy, which presents the U.S. as a dystopia. See also 1826 Paulding, which is a satire on Robert Owen’s principles.
U.K. ed. London: John Miller, 1825.
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The Millennial Kingdom of Peace: or a New System of Ecclesiastical Government, by the Holy Ghost and Saints (As Acts. XV. 26.) Where, Note, The Holy Ghost makes all Laws Invisibly! as when, "the Spirit made it seem good to decree," & c. as Acts XVI. 4. XV. 28. Or, as taught herein, That Invisibly, all Laws may be made by God's Spirit, if made invisibly by Saints! but cannot be done by Nations! For, God, our Saviour, promises, when he comes again, "to be glorified in his Saints," not Nations! see Dan. vii. 22. 2 Thes. X. 12. This Work Maintains also, That Such a Work Began in A.D. 1816! And Is to End in A.D. 1866; and Began With the Greeks Invisibly - Ebenezer Kellogg (1789-1846) (Published by the Author, 1824)
Proposal for a eutopia in which the saints will rule. Includes complex calculations on when the millennium will occur and concludes that it will be in 1866. Much criticism of contemporary organized religion saying that it is laymen who will be saved. Long argument that he was inspired by God and angels.
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Fragments of the History of Bawlfredonia: Containing an Account of the Discovery and Settlement, of that Great Southern Continent; and of the Formation and Progress of the Bawlfredonian Commonwealth. By Herman Thwackius. Translated from the original Bawlfredonian Manuscript, into the French language, by Monsieur Traducteur and Rendered into English, by a citizen of America - [Jonas] [Clopper] (Ptd. for the American Booksellers, 1819)
Satire on American history using the utopian form. Anti-democratic with particularly strong attacks on Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Caricatures both Yankees and Southerners. Disapproves of Stinkum-Puff (tobacco).
Rpt. as Bawlfredonia. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House/Gregg Press, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Flight to the Moon; or, The Vision of Randalthus - Geo[rge] Fowler (A. Miltenberger, 1813)
Eutopia. Equality has brought about similar stature and appearance. Pure, moderate people who eschew philosophy because it is confusing. Obey "the simple impulse of nature" rather than laws. A second eutopia of innocence, purity, and bliss is presented in a dream with a third similar eutopia in the interior of the sun.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Poem on the Future Glory of the United States of America" - David Humphreys (1752-1818) (The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid, 1804)
Eutopia. Pretty much what the title says.
Rpt. as The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804): A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by William K. Bottorff (Gainesville FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1968), 53-65.
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"A Poem on the Industry of the United States of America" - David Humphreys (1752-1818) (The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys: Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid, 1804)
Eutopia describing the future industry of the U.S.
Rpt. as The Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys (1804): A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by William K. Bottorff (Gainesville FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1968), 97-114 with introductory material (89-96).
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"Equality--A Political Romance" - [John] [Lithgow] (The Temple of Reason (Philadelphia, PA), 1802)
Eutopia. No money, land is held in common, and labor is required from all until age 50. No towns--houses are spread over the entire country. Everyone over 15 has a separate apartment and keeps it even when married. Gerontocracy. Deist. Every male over 18 is provided with arms and must know how to use them.
Rpt. as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: Liberal Union, 1837. This ed. rpt. in The New Moral World (London) [5].3 - 5, 7, 10, 13, 15 - 16, 20 (November 10 - 24, December 8, 29, 1838; January 13, February 2 - 9, March 9, 1839): 45-46; 51-52; 69-71; 99-100; 158-59; 206-07; 239-40; 247-49; 310-11; as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Boston, MA: Pub. by J. P. Mendum, 1863; and as Equality, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: The Prime Press, 1947. Rpt. from The Temple of Reason as by James Reynolds in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A New Year's Poem" - David Everett A.M. (1770-1813) (Common Sense in dishabille, or The Farmer's Monitor. Containing a Variety of Familiar Essays, on Subjects Moral & Economical. To Which is Added a Perpetual Calendar, or Economical Almanack, 1799)
America as a eutopia stressing agriculture.
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"[Alcuin]" - Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) (The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works, From His Original Letters, And From His Manuscripts Before Unpublished, 1798)
Eutopia of complete gender equality. No marriage.
U.K. ed. as “The Paradise of Women, From ‘Alcuin’.” In William Dunlap. Memoirs of Charles Brockden Brown, The American Novelist, Author of Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, &c. With Selections from His Original Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings (London: Ptd. for Henry Colburn and Co., 1822), 247-308. Parts I and II of Alcuin, which do not include the utopia had been published as Alcuin: A Dialogue. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1798. Rpt. as Alcuin: A Dialogue by Charles Brockton Brown. A Type-facsimile Reprint of the First Edition with an Introduction by L[eRoy] E[lwood] Kimball (vii-xxi). New Haven, CT: Carl & Margaret Rollins, 1935. An abr. version of these parts was published as “The Rights of Women: A Dialogue.” Weekly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) 1.7 – 10 (March 17 – April 7 1798): 198-200; 231-36; 271-74; 299-302. All parts are available in Alcuin: A Dialogue. Ed. Lee E. Edwards. The Gehenna Tracts 3. Northampton. MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. Rpt. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971; and in Alcuin. Ed. Cynthia A. Kerner New York: NCUP, Inc., 1995, with an “Introduction (3-37), “A Note on Text” (38), and “Suggested Readings” (39-40). Critical ed. in The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown. Bicentennial Edition. Volume VI. Alcuin: A Dialogue and Memoirs of Stephen Calvet. Ed. Stanley J. Krause, S. W. Reid, and Robert D. Arner (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987), 1-67, an “Historical Essay” (273-98), a “Textual Essay” (313-56), “Textual Notes” (368-75), “Variants in Alcuin, Parts I and II” (376-422), “List of Emendations in Alcuin, Part III” (423), “End-of-Line Word-Division” (424), and “Record of Collations and Copies Consulted” (436-37).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia" - Elihu Hubbard Smith (1771-98) (Early American Literature, 1796)
Detailed eutopia focused on health and public education to age thirty, which is coeducational to age twenty-two but with women excluded from university education. Combination of reason and Christianity.
Ms. in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Future State of the Western Territory" - David Humphreys (1752-1818) (The Columbian Muse. A Selection of American Poetry from Various Authors of Established Reputation, 1794)
Eutopia describing the West of the U.S. in Arcadian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Vision" - Timothy Dwight D.D. (1752-1817) (Greenfield Hill: A Poem in Seven Parts. I. The Prospect. II. The Flourishing Village. III. The Burning of Fairfield. IV. The Destruction of the Pequods. V. The Clergyman’s Advice to the Villagers. VI. The Farmer’s Advice to the Villagers. VII. The Vision, or Prospect of the Future Happiness of America, 1794)
The future of the United States and Greenfield Hill, Connecticut in particular. Emphasizes escaping from the institutions and problems of Europe. Stress on freedom under law, morality, and education. Natural beauty. No slavery. No real rich or poor.
Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1970.
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The Emigrants, &c or the History of an Expatriated Family, Being a Delineation of English Manners, Drawn from Real Characters, Written in America - G[ilbert] Imlay Esq. (1754-1828) (A. Hamilton, 1793)
There is a short section (Letter LXX) that describes what appears to be intended as a eutopia, but there is little detail. Eutopian imagery is used throughout the text to describe the Ohio Valley as a place to settle.
Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. for C. Brown, 1794; as The Emigrants (1793) Traditionally Ascribed to Gilbert Imlay But, More Probably, By Mary Wollstonecraft. A Facsimile Reproduction of The Dublin Edition (1794). Gainesville, FL: Scholar’s Facsimiles & Reprints, 1964 with an “Introduction” by Robert R. Hare (v-xv); and as The Emigrants. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1998 with an “Introduction” by Wm. Verhoeven and Amanda Gilroy (ix-lix), “Explanatory Notes” (257-304), and a “Glossary” (305-06). The Penguin ed. reprints the 1st ed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A plan of a Peace Office for the United States" - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) (Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1793, 1793)
Essay giving a detailed proposal for a Department of Peace presented in seven proposals: Appointing of a “genuine republican and sincere Christian” to head the office. Establishing free schools “in every city, village and township of the United States. Providing every family with a copy of “a copy of an American edition of the BIBLE.”  Inscribing every “State and Court house” with the words “the son of man came into the world, not to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” Rejecting capital punishment. Repealing militia laws. Eliminating military uniforms, parades, and titles. Has been read as a satire, and while the above proposals appear perfectly serious, the last proposal, which is to adorn the office of the Peace-Office with pictures of those currently at war in peaceful interaction, and a daily singing of a peace song. The War Office would, in contrast, be adorned with reminders of the horrors of war. A United States Peace Institute was established by Congress in 1984; see http://www.usip.org.
Rpt. exp. in his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 183-88; 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 183-88; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 106-09; in The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush. Ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), 19-23; in Voices of Dissent: An Anthology of Individualist Thought in the United States. Ed. Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. (New York: Citadel Press, 1964), 17-21; and rpt. illus. by Leonard Baskin and a with note by Sidney Kaplan. The Massachusetts Review 25.2 (Summer 1984): 269-83.
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“The Philanthropist. No. XVI. An Allegorical DESCRIPTION of a certain ISLAND and its INHABITANTS” (The Massachusetts Magazine, 1790)
Christian allegory using utopian imagery. The island (this life) is part of the territory of the King of Utopia (God) where people who disobey the King are exiled until they change their ways and please him again. During their exile, all needed supplies are provided by the King.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: US author

Plan for a Free Community upon the Plan for a Free Community upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leone, on the Coast of Guinea.of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits there - August [or Augustus] Nordenskjold (1754-92); Charles Bernard Wadstrom (1746-99); Colburn Barrell; Johan Gottfried Simpson (Ptd. by R. Hindmarsh, 1789)
Proposal for a Christian community with a constitution and organization of government. For more information the reader is referred to the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), which they plan to publish.
Later ed. as by Charles Bernard Wadstrom, Plan for a Free Community at Sierra Leona, Upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; with An Invitation to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leona, on the Coast of Guinea. London: Ptd. for T. and J. Egerton, 1792. Same signers. Some errata.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Swedish author; US author

“The Benefits of Charity: A Dream” - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) (Columbian Magazine, 1787)
Dream in which the protagonist visits heaven and sees how Philadelphia has been protected from punishment for its evil ways by first, the existence of the Pennsylvania Hospital, second, by the existence of a Dispensary, third, by the existence of the Society for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and fourth, by the existence of A Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. When it is threatened a fifth time, it will be saved only if it establishes “FREE SCHOOLS in which human learning shall be accompanied, and corrected [581] with religious instruction. . .” (580-81). See also his Constitution and Laws of the Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and Support of Charity Schools. Incorporated September 8, 1801. With a Historical Sketch of the Institution and the Life of Christopher Ludwick. Philadelphia: Ptd. by the Order of The Society, 1860.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Paradise of Negro-Slaves.--a dream" - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) (The Columbia Magazine: or Monthly Miscellany, 1787)
Those who had been slaves are in their own heaven, where, knowing they are saved, wait for the final judgement. Visited by the author in a dream, they are frightened by seeing a white man but learning that he supports abolition, they welcome him, and a few tell him their stories. Each tells of the horrors of slavery and how they were mistreated and killed, but they hope that those who mistreated them will repent and be saved rather than face damnation for their actions in life. The dream ends with the arrival and welcome of another white man, Anthony Benezet (1713-84), the founder of world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, which, after his death, was reconstituted by Benjamin Franklin and Rush as the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery; the first public school for girls in North America; and the Negro School at Philadelphia.
Rpt. in his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical. 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 305-09; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 187-90.
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The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books - Joel Barlow Esquire (1754-1812) (Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1787)
A poem with millennial themes. Although most of the poem is concerned with the history of the Americas to date, it includes several visions of a future of universal peace and prosperity based on the flourishing of the arts and the sway of reason and science. Book IX (237-58) concludes the poem with a vision of the entire Earth, speaking one language and with all nations working together to form a world council to bring the world into harmony. This served as the basis for his better known The Columbiad A Poem. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore, 1807.
2nd ed. Hartford, CT: Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 5th ed. corrected as The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. To Which is Added, The Conspiracy of Kings: A Poem, By the Same Author (Paris: Ptd. at the English Press, 1793), 1-275.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State - [Benjamin] [Rush] (1745-1813) (A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State, 1786)
A detailed proposal for a eutopian public school system, saying that it supports religion, liberty, “just ideas of law and government,” manners, agriculture, and manufacturing (1). It then proposes one university in each state, located in its capital. For Pennsylvania he proposes four colleges in Philadelphia, Carlisle, Lancaster, “for the benefit of our German fellow citizens,” and one, in the future, in Pittsburg (2). Also, there should be a free school in every township where children learn to “read and write the English and German languages, and the use of figures” (2). Rush wrote numerous essays on aspects of education, including “Thoughts upon the Mode of Education proper in a Republic.” In his A Plan for the Establishment of Public Schools and the Diffusion of Knowledge in Pennsylvania to which are added thoughts upon the mode of education, proper in a republic. Addressed to the Legislature and Citizens of the State. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. for Thomas Dobson, 1786), 13-36; “Thoughts upon Female Education, Accommodated to the Present State of Society, Manners, and Government, in the United States of America. Addressed to the Visitors of the Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia, 28th July, 1787, at the Close of the Quarterly Examination, and Afterwards Published at the Request of the Visitors” his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical. (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 75-92. 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 75-92. Rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 44-54; “An Enquiry into the Utility of a Knowledge of the Latin and Greek Languages, as a branch of liberal education, with hints of a plan of liberal instruction, without them, accommodated to the present state of society, manners, and government in the United States.” By a Citizen of Philadelphia [pseud.]. American Museum, or Universal Magazine 5 (June 1789): 525-35; “Plan for a Federal University.” By Citizen of Pennsylvania [pseud.]. Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Evening Post, no. 25 (October 29, 1788): 2-3; and “Letter to Richard Price May 15, 1786.” Letters of Benjamin Rush. Volume I: 1761-1792. Ed. L. H. Butterfield ([Philadelphia, PA]: The American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press, 1951), 388-90.
Rpt. in the Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), no. 2919 (May 10, 1786): 1-2; and as “A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania, and for conducting education agreeably to a Republican form of Government. Addressed to the Legislature and citizens of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1786.” In his Essays Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 1-6; 2nd ed. with additions (Philadelphia, PA: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1806), 1-6; rpt. ed. Michael Meranze (Schenectady, NY: Union College Press, 1988), 1-4. Also rpt. as “Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government.” In The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush. Ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), 97-100.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Age: or; Future Glory of North-America Discovered by An Angel to Celadon. In Several Entertaining Visions. Vision I - Celadon [pseud.] (Np, 1785)
Depicts a future America. The angel is one of those who were appointed to oversee the colonies and inspire “your statesmen and heroes with courage” (6). While America cannot be protected “from the usual vicissitudes of fortune. . . . The States will doubtless watch over one another with the strictest vigilance” and thus protect the country from “gross innovation” (7). It will benefit from the “continual emigration” of the “poor, the oppressed, and the persecuted” and will prosper as long as the people do not give in to “pride and luxury” (9). New states will be added, including Savagenia, for Indians and Nigrania for Negroes after the end of slavery. And given the size of the country, there may well be states for Jews and for those arriving from other countries, with only European ones mentioned.
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"Reverie, Occasioned by Reading the Vision of Mirza" - [Judith Sargent] [Murray] (1751-1820) (The Boston Magazine, 1785)
From birth to death and after humans are accompanied by an unseen guide from heaven who ultimately, after death, help all of them to reach heaven, which is briefly described. It has no night, many flowers always in bloom, exceptional music, and true joy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L.L.D. Governor and Commander in Chief, and the Honorable The General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Convened at Hartford, At the Anniversary Election, May 8th, 1783 - Ezra Stiles D.D. (1727-95) (Thomas & Samuel Green, 1783)
The United States presented as an achieved eutopia, which will be a model to and leader of the rest of the world due to its governmental system and true religion. The country will have a population of forty to fifty million before the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. See also his A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760. Boston, N.E.: Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, 1761. Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. that projects New England into the next century.
Rpt. ed. Reiner Smolinski. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=etas. A different version was published in The Kingdom, the Power, & the Glory: The Millennial Impulse in Early American Literature. Ed. Reiner Smolinski (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1998), 441–492.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Vision of the Paradise of Female Patriotism" - Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.] (The United States Magazine, A Repository of History, Politics and Literature (Philadelphia, PA), 1779)
A woman daydreaming by her window in Philadelphia is visited by the male, or at least that is the pronoun used, “angel of the paradise of female patriotism,” who urges her to visit this paradise, which requires an apparently dangerous trek over a mountain. On her arrival, she finds a garden where women from all eras, mostly in separate areas, live. Although some have already arrived, a separate hill is reserved for women from the thirteen colonies, and among the women who will reside there will be those who opposed the revolution but have seen their error and become patriotic Americans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Prophecy of the future Glory of America" - [David] [Rittenhouse] (1732-96) (The Lancaster Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1779: Being the Third after Leap-Year. The Fourth Year of American Independency. Containing The Motions of the Sun and the Moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the Rising and Settings of the Sun; the Luinations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Rising, Setting and Southing of the Planets; Length of Days; Judgment of the Weather; Festivals and other Remarkable Days; High Water at Philadelphia; Tables of Interest; Tables of the Value and Weight of Coins; A Table, shewing the Value of any number of Dollars from 1, to 10,000; Quakers Yearly Meetings; Fairs, Courts, Roads, &c. ALSO, The Happy Life, On New-Year’s Day; A Prophecy of the future Glory of America; Anecdote of Col. Ethan Allen, in reply to Genl. Howe; Receipts in Physic; New Liberty Songs, &c. &c. &c. Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a Meridian of near Five Hours West of London; but may without sensible Error, serve all the Northern Colonies, 1778)
Poem describing the future of the United States in vague, but eutopian terms.
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Columbia: A Song, Written & Set to Music by Timothy Dwight, the Elder - Timothy Dwight D.D. (1752-1817) (Printed at the Press of Timothy Dwight College in Yale University, 1777)
The future of America as a eutopia of science, the arts, freedom, and power in the world.
Text from the American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical (Philadelphia) 1.6 (June 1787), 1: 484-85. Written in 1777 and apparently published in broadsides, one version of which is Columbia: An Ode. [Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by John M’Culloch, 1794], which includes the music. The text and music can also be found in The American Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Newest and Most Approved Songs, Set to Music (Northampton, MA: Ptd. by Andrew Dwight, 1798), 207-11, with the title simply as “Columbia” on 207 but as “Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise” in the Contents. Book rpt. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), 207-11.
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A Poem, on the Rising Glory of America: Being an Exercise Delivered at the Public Commencement at Nassau-hall, September 25, 1771 - Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832); [Hugh Henry] [Brackenridge] (1748-1816) (Ptd. by Joseph Crukshank, 1772)
The last stanzas (25-27) describe America in the coming millennium when America will be the new Eden.
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The History of a Corporation of Servants. Discovered a few Years ago in the Interior Parts of South America. Containing some very Surprising Events and Extraordinary Characters - [John] [Witherspoon] (1723-94) (Ptd. for John Gilmour, 1765)
Satire on a society that comes to be controlled by its servants which can be read as a satire on the churches of England and Scotland.
Rpt. in The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D. L.L.D. Late President of the College at Princeton, New-Jersey. To Which is Prefixed An Account of the Author’s Life, in a Sermon occasioned by his Death, By the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New-York. 2nd ed. Rev. and corr. 4 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. & published By William W. Woodward, 1802), 3: 313-63. Collection rpt. as The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon. 4 vols. (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 2003), 3: 311-63.
Keywords: Scottish author; US author

A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760 - Ezra Stiles A.M. (1727-95) (Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, 1761)
Projects New England into the next century. Most of the book is concerned with what Christians agreed upon and where they disagree. From page 145 (1799 ed.) a lot of space is devoted to the increase in population of each of the four sects he finds worthy of attention, Episcopalians, Friends (Quakers), Baptists, and Congregationalists, with the last showing the greatest increase in population and in the number of churches. His concern is that without unity among Christians, or at least Protestants, the coming generations will become indifferent or tempted by other churches. Therefore, he gives suggestions for those who in the future will found new communities. He stresses the need for such new communities to establish churches and bring in ministers. At page 154 (1799 ed.) he projects one hundred years into the future, when he foresees the plain churches of his day replaced “with temples whose colonades [as spelled] are deckt with guilt busts of angels winged. . . .” Seven million Congregationalists at that time.
Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp.
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A General Idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the several classes and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals etc. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New York - [William] [Smith] (1727-1803) (Ptd. by J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753)
Eutopian educational system. The Miranians believe that a good education is required for a good society and that a common education is needed to bring together the varied peoples who inhabited the country. The students were divided into two groups taught by different people in separate institutions, those intended for the learned professions and those intended for “Mechanic Professions, and all the remaining People of the Country” (14). The first are taught learned languages; the rest are not and finish their education at age fifteen. Those intended for the professions are taught English and Latin to age 15 then one year each of Greek; mathematics; philosophy, meaning ethics and physics; rhetoric and poetry; and agriculture and history. Much concern with the ability to speak and write well. Includes specific details of the education of the first group. Although there is an earlier Christian allegory, this is the earliest known utopia published in what became the United States. Influenced the founders of both King’s College, now Columbia University, and the Academy and College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania.
Rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1969 with an “Introduction” by Edward M. Griffin (v-xv); and in The Works of William Smith, D.D. Late Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. 2 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: Hugh Maxwell and William Fry, 1803), 1: 165-229. The 2nd ed. corrected was published as A General Idea of the College of Mirania as Appendix Second. Number I of his Additional Discourses and Essays. Being a Supplement To the First Edition of Discourses on several Public Occasions during the War in America. Published for the Use of the Purchasers of that Edition. London: Ptd. for A. Millar and R. Griffiths, 1762. The appendices are separately paged with Mirania on 37-106 with “Postscript” on 104-06.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

Brief History of the Country of Humanity: Giving an Account of the First Settlement of that Country under My Lord Love God, the First Governour under the King. Its being taken by an Army of Intruders, thro' the Treachery of Mr. Love Self, who usurped the Government. The Devastations made in the Country by the Intruders. The Opposition made against them by Capt. Prudence. The re-taking of the Country by Gen. Gospel. And the Wars in the Country during those Times - [Joseph] [Morgan] (1671-ca. 1749) (Ptd. by Samuel Gerrish, 1728)
Christian allegory the plot of which is given in the title. Close neighbor was the country of Usefulness, with which it traded. Ends with a reference to his The History of the Kingdom of Basaruah (1715).
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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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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 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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