ABSTRACT
NEGLEY’s bibliography of over 1,600 items, ordered alphabetically and a useful aid to research, explicitly seeks to define literary utopianism and restricts its ambit accordingly. It also purposely excludes classical literature, but covers material fairly fully though not comprehensively, from the Renaissance onward, listing primary works mainly (but not exclusively) in English, and tracing in outline the genre’s historical development. SARGENT’s latest bibliography, more focused and more substantial (nearly double Negley’s number of entries), is the fullest listing of English utopias available, though still admittedly incomplete. It seeks to be widely inclusive, however, covering works with a Utopian element as well as full-blown Utopian literature, from Thomas More to the present (over two-thirds on the twentieth century), annotating entries helpfully. Authorand title-indexes enable cross-referencing.
