{"id":116,"date":"2026-01-16T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=116"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:23:35","slug":"utopia","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Utopia:\u00a0containing\u00a0an impartial history of the manners, customs, polity, government, etc.,\u00a0of that island<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br>Thomas\u00a0More\u00a0<br>London: Printed for D.I. Eaton, 1795\u00a0<br>John Sevier Collection\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Thomas More\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong>Utopia<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>helped\u00a0establish\u00a0the utopia\/dystopia subgenre popular in science fiction literature.\u00a0Originally published in\u00a0Latin\u00a0in 1516,\u00a0this political and philosophical work depicts an island society organized around communal property, rational\u00a0governance\u00a0and social harmony.\u00a0More created the concept\u00a0of\u00a0\u201cutopia\u201d\u00a0as a model for a perfect society, and the word is still used to describe perceived ideal communities.\u00a0The fictional travel narrative\u00a0used by More became a common literary trope for works by later authors.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":87,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[3],"class_list":["post-116","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-dystopias-utopias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}