page_title: List of utopian literature
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of utopian literature / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: A Crystal Age (1906 Edition Cover)
context_page_description: This is a list of utopian literature. A utopia is a community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. It is a common literary theme, especially in speculative fiction and science fiction.
context_section_description: Theory of the Four Movements (1808) by Charles Fourier
  The Empire of the Nairs (1811) by James Henry Lawrence
  The Voyage to Icaria (1842) by Étienne Cabet – Inspired the Icarian movement
  Sibling Life or Brothers and Sisters (Swedish: Syskonlif; 1848) by Fredrika Bremer
  Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an utopian novel with a superior subterranean cooperative society.
  Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler – Satirical utopian novel with dystopian elements set in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.
  Mizora, (1880–81) by Mary E. Bradley Lane
  A Crystal Age (1887), by W.H. Hudson – An amateur ornithologist and botanist falls down a crevice, and wakes up centuries later, in a world where humans live in families, in harmony with each other and animals; but, where reproduction, emotions, and secondary sexual characteristics are repressed, except for the Alpha males and females.
  Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
  Freeland (1890) by Theodor Hertzka
  Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900 (1890) by Lady Florence Dixie – The female protagonist poses as a man, Hector l'Estrange, is elected to the House of Commons, and wins women the vote. The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women.
  News from Nowhere (1892) by William Morris – "Nowhere" is a place without politics, a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production.
  2894, or The Fossil Man (A Midwinter Night's Dream) (1894) by Walter Browne
  A Traveler from Altruria (1894) by William Dean Howells
  Equality (1897) by Edward Bellamy
  The Future State: Production and Consumption in the Socialist State. (Der Zukunftsstaat: Produktion und Konsum im Sozialstaat.) (1898) by Kārlis Balodis – he adopted the pseudonym Ballod-Atlanticus from Bacon's book Nova Atlantis (1627)
caption: A Crystal Age, by W.H. Hudson (1906 edition cover)
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