UTOPIAN LITERATURE, a form of literature that depicts ideal
societies. The adjective “Utopian” is based on a word coined by Sir
Thomas More from the Greek to mean “nowhere.” Utopia is the
title of his treatise (1516), in which he discussed contemporary
problems and conceived a fictitious land where such problems do not
exist.
乌托邦文学，一种描述理想社会的文学形式。“乌托邦的”这个形容词是由托马斯·莫尔以希腊语为基础创造的一个单词，意为“不存在的地方”。《乌托邦》是其论著的名称（1516年），在论著中，他讨论了同时代的各种问题，并设想了一个虚构的国度，在那里，那些问题都不存在。
The concept of writing about visionary societies did not originate with More. The most important earlier example is Plato’s Republic. Later works include Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun (1623), Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627), and Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). Because Utopian literature is often veiled criticism of cur
乌托邦文学，一种描述理想社会的文学形式。“乌托邦的”这个形容词是由托马斯·莫尔以希腊语为基础创造的一个单词，意为“不存在的地方”。《乌托邦》是其论著的名称（1516年），在论著中，他讨论了同时代的各种问题，并设想了一个虚构的国度，在那里，那些问题都不存在。
The concept of writing about visionary societies did not originate with More. The most important earlier example is Plato’s Republic. Later works include Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun (1623), Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627), and Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). Because Utopian literature is often veiled criticism of cur