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Utopian Literature From The Sixteenth Century To Present Day, Lisa Sikkink
Utopian Literature From The Sixteenth Century To Present Day, Lisa Sikkink
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, and George Orwell’s 1984 are all works of utopian literature. Although they were written during different time periods, the issues they explore are remarkably similar. My research project explores such ideas as literature, sex and reproduction, society, and family life in these utopian works in order to demonstrate these affinities.