Utopia: A Norton Critical Edition(Norton Critical Editions)

About the Book

Inspiring, provocative, prophetic, and enigmatic, Utopia is the literary masterpiece of a visionary statesman and one of the most influential books of the modern world.

Based on Thomas More's penetrating analysis of the folly and tragedy of the politics of his time and all times, Utopia (1516) is a seedbed of alternative political institutions and a perennially challenging exploration of the possibilities and limitations of political action.

This Norton Critical Edition is built on the translation that Robert M. Adams created for it in 1975. For the Third Edition, George M. Logan has carefully revised the translation, improving its accuracy while preserving the grace and verve that have made it the most highly regarded modern rendering of More's Renaissance Latin work.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Translatorʼs Note
Abbreviations
The Text of Utopia
Backgrounds
Plato • [The Guardians]
Ovid • [The Golden Age and After]
The Acts of the Apostles • [The Community]
Lucian of Samosata • [Saturnʼs Age]
St. Ambrose • [Nabothʼs Vineyard]
St. Benedict • [Monastic Rules]
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Anonymous • From The Land of Cockayne
Amerigo Vespucci • From The Four Voyages
The First Voyage
The Fourth Voyage
G. R. Elton • [The Problems of the Realm]
The Humanist Circle: Letters
Peter Giles to Jerome Busleyden
Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More
Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset
Erasmus of Rotterdam to Johann Froben
Thomas More to Peter Giles
Erasmus to Ulrich von Hutten

About the Author :
George M. Logan (Ph.D. Harvard) is a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto and the James Cappon Professor of English Emeritus at Queen’s University, Canada, where he was head of the English Department for nine years and an award-winning teacher. He is the author of The Meaning of More’s Utopia and principal editor of the Cambridge edition of Utopia (Latin and English), editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (3rd edition), More’s History of King Richard the Third, and The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More, and coeditor, with Gordon Teskey, of Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance; he has also written a history of the Indiana University School of Music. Robert M. Adams was Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics; Strains of Discord; Proteus, His Lies, His Truth: Discussion of Literary Translation; The Land and Literature of England; and Shakespeare—The Four Romances. In addition to the Norton Critical Edition of Utopia (he was translator and editor of the First and Second Editions), Professor Adams was editor of five other Norton Critical Editions, including The Prince by Machiavelli, Candide by Voltaire, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus, the texts of which he also translated. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.