Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times

"Utopia and Anti- Utopia in Modern Times" by Kumar Krishan gives an indepth overview on what Utopia and dysutopia is using various authors, philosphers, and perspectives. Kumar Krishan helps the reader develop a good background on the concept of Utopia by showing how the concept was developed through the time period and how society was changing and developing at that time period such as ancient Greece and Rome, nineteenth-century Europe, and nineteenth-century America. The compendium also gives indepth information on writers in certain time periods and their literary works.This is an excellent source to see how Utopianism evolved over time and to see how the concept how writers at the time period thought the concept would affect society at large. Kumar, Krishan. Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.