附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Utopianism before Thomas More -- The golden age -- Works and days / Hesiod -- Metamorphosis / Ovid -- Fourth eclogue / Vergil -- Earthly paradises -- The garden of eden -- Genesis -- The elysian fields -- Fragments / Pindar -- Islands of the blest -- Epode 16 / Horace -- The middle ages -- Eden -- Dracontius -- The land of prester John -- The lawgivers -- Solon -- Lycurgus -- Utopias and utopian satires -- Republic / Plato -- Ecclesiazusae / Aristophanes -- The prophets -- Isaiah -- Hellenistic utopias -- Heliopolis / Iambulus -- Saturnalia -- Saturnalia / Lucian -- The millennium -- The revelation of St. John -- Il Baruch -- Monasticism -- The rule of St. Benedict -- The rule of St. Francis -- The cockaigne -- Telecleides -- Cockaigne -- The sixteenth century -- Utopia / Thomas More -- The abbey of Theleme / François Rabelais -- Of the cannibals / Michel de Montaigne -- The seventeenth century -- Mundus alter et idem / Joseph Hall -- The tempest / William Shakespeare -- The city of the sun / Tommaso Campanella -- New Atlantis / Francis Bacon -- The law of freedom in a platform / Gerrard Winstanley -- The inventory of judgements commonwealth / Margaret Cavendish -- The commonwealth of oceana / James Harrington -- The eighteenth century -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred / Louis Sébastien Mercier -- L'andrographe / Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne -- Enquiry concerning political justice / William Godwin -- Greenfield Hill / Timothy Dwight -- Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind / Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet -- The constitution of spensonia / Thomas Spence -- The nineteenth century -- Communal societies as utopias -- Shakers -- The Shaker compendium / Frederick William Evans -- The millennial laws -- Shaker covenant -- Amana or the community of true inspiration -- The twenty-one rules -- Oneida -- System of criticism -- Selections describing the phalanstery / Ch