ENGL 262 Utopia & Dystopia in Literature
This course offers an interdisciplinary engagement with various elements of the Utopian tradition, including its pessimistic alter ego, the dystopia. From the fundamental question of whether it is possible to imagine social forms radically different from our own, we will trace a series of ever widening circles through matters of human nature, money, technology, desire, authority, fear, and much else besides. Authors may include Thomas More, William Morris, Karl Marx, Yevgeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joanna Russ, and Margaret Atwood.