Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Genre

Professor Pamela Bedore, lecturer

Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature plunges you into the history and development of utopian ideas and their dystopian counterparts. You'll encounter some of the most powerful and influential texts in this genre as you travel centuries into the past and thousands of years into the future, through worlds that are beautiful, laughable, terrifying, and always thought-provoking

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Utopia

Episode 2

Thomas More and Utopian Origins

Episode 3

Swift, Voltaire, and Utopian Satire

Episode 4

American Dreamers

Episode 5

Samuel Butler and Utopian Technologies

Episode 6

Edward Bellamy and Utopian Activism

Episode 7

H.G. Wells and Utopian Science Fiction

Episode 8

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gendered Utopia

Episode 9

Yevgeny Zamyatin and Dystopian Uniformity

Episode 10

Aldous Huxley and Dystopian Pleasure

Episode 11

George Orwell and Totalitarian Dystopia

Episode 12

John Wyndham and Young Adult Dystopia

Episode 13

Philip K. Dick's Dystopian Crime Prevention

Episode 14

Anthony Burgess, Free Will, and Dystopia

Episode 15

The Feminist Utopian Movement of the 1970s

Episode 16

Ursula K. Le Guin and the Ambiguous Utopia

Episode 17

Samuel Delany and Heterotopia

Episode 18

Octavia Butler and the Utopian Alien

Episode 19

Octavia Butler and Utopian Hybridity

Episode 20

Margaret Atwood and Environmental Dystopia

Episode 21

Suzanne Collins and Dystopian Games

Episode 22

Cyberpunk Dystopia

Episode 23

Apocalyptic Literature in the 21st Century

Episode 24

The Future of Utopia and Dystopia