Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature

Join an award-winning professor to examine a wide range of literary works extending from the peaceful to the nightmarish, and from the conservative to the subversive.

• By This Professor
• 01: Utopia: The Perfect Nowhere
• 02: Thomas More and Utopian Origins
• 03: Swift, Voltaire, and Utopian Satire
• 04: American Dreamers: Hawthorne and Alcott
• 05: Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies
• 06: Edward Bellamy and Utopian Activism
• 07: H. G. Wells and Utopian Science Fiction
• 08: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gendered Utopia
• 09: Yevgeny Zamyatin and Dystopian Uniformity
• 10: Aldous Huxley and Dystopian Pleasure
• 11: George Orwell and Totalitarian Dystopia
• 12: John Wyndham and Young Adult Dystopia
• 13: Philip K. Dick's Dystopian Crime Prevention
• 14: Anthony Burgess, Free Will, and Dystopia
• 15: The Feminist Utopian Movement of the 1970s
• 16: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Ambiguous Utopia
• 17: Samuel Delany and the Heterotopia
• 18: Octavia Butler and the Utopian Alien
• 19: Octavia Butler and Utopian Hybridity
• 20: Margaret Atwood and Environmental Dystopia
• 21: Suzanne Collins and Dystopian Games
• 22: Cyberpunk Dystopia: Doctorow and Anderson
• 23: Apocalyptic Literature in the 21st Century
• 24: The Future of Utopia and Dystopia