Utopian Visions of Pragmatic Englishmen: Utopia in the English Literary Tradition
Stankomir NICIEJA
Department of Anglophone Cultures, Institute of English, University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11, 45-040 Opole , PolandAbstract
The current paper presents the development of the English literary utopia over the span of four centuries, from the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia in 1516, until the second half of the twentieth century. The developments in utopianism are presented by looking at the key works of the English utopian thought. The article, among others, examines Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The discussed examples constitute the most seminal utopias and simultaneously represent various kinds within the genre, including satirical utopia, scientific utopia and anti-utopia. The article closes with a brief analysis of James Hilton’s Lost Horizon and a short conclusion.
Keywords:
literary utopia, Utopia, New Atlantis, Gulliver Travels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, satirical utopia, scientific utopia, anti-utopia, James Hilton’s Lost HorizonNICIEJA, S. (2020). Utopijne wizje pragmatycznych Anglików. Utopia w angielskiej tradycji literackiej. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 27(3 (107). https://doi.org/10.12887/27-2014-3-107-12
Stankomir NICIEJA
Department of Anglophone Cultures, Institute of English, University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11, 45-040 Opole
Department of Anglophone Cultures, Institute of English, University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11, 45-040 Opole
