Aqua cloth boards with gilt lettering; xxiv, 342 pp. Contents include:

Aqua cloth boards with gilt lettering; xxiv, 342 pp. Contents include: Dessine-moi une utopie: le pari du 700e anniversaire / Preface by Roger Gaillard--Proteus and the Phoenix: Transformations of the Utopian Experience / Introduction by George Slusser. History and Recontextualization--Practical Hallucinations: Campanella's Città del sole / jean-Pierre Barricelli--Engendering Utopias: Examples from Eighteenth-Century England / Alessa Johns--Utopia and the French Romantic Imagination / Ceri Crossley--Fantasies on the Fringe: Romatic Concepts of Nationalism in Utopias Set at the Edges of Nineteenth Century Europe / Ellis Shookman--The Traveler to the Past as Seeker after Utopia / Bud Foote--Writing Wells's Dream Book: The Utopia and Science Fiction/ James Gunn--Une contre-utopie anti-communiste: Le Triomphe de Lénine / Joseph Altairac--Amours en utopie: version russe / Leonid Heller--Le Suisse est-il utopiste? / Jean-François Thomas. Topos: Repositioning Utopia--Vehicular Utopias of Jules Verne / Arthur B. Evans--The Influence of Literature on Advertising in the Making of Ephemeral Utopias / Pedro Gallardo-Torrano--Club Med as Utopia: Antedating the Idyll / Amy Boesky--From Talmud to Cyberspace: Transcendence at the Interface / David Porush--Souls on Ice: Cryonics and the Bodily Utopia / George Slusser--L'Utopie, une formation de l'inconscient / Roger Dadoun. Utopian Dialects--NoWhere Man: Towards a Poetics of Post-Utopian Characterization / Carol McGuirk--The Utopian Calendar / Paul Alkon--The Mines and Quarries of Arcady / K.V. Bailey--At Play in the Fields of our Ford: Utopian Dystopianism in Atwood, Huxley, and Zamyatin / Laurence davies--"Even Worse, It Could Be Perfect": Aspects of the Undesirable Utopia in Modern Science Fiction / Edward James--Gadgetry, Government, Genetics, and God: The Forms of Science Fiction Utopia / Gary Westfahl--Raymond Ruyer, un philosophe face à l'Utopie / Bertand Méheust--Louise Michel, une utopiste libertaire? / Rober Bozzetto--The Handmaid's Tale as a Richian Re-Visioning of 1984 / Jocelyn Harris--All You Need Is Love? : The Postseparatist Feminist Utopia / Marleen Barr--L'Utopie ambigue: érotisme et pouvoir dans quelques utopies féminines récentes / Elisabeth Vonarburg--The Utopian Paradox: On the Necessity of an Impossible Dream / Eric S. Rabkin--Dystopian Postscript / Paul Alkon--Index.