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I. Dystopian literature as a genre
A. Dystopian fiction
B. Utopian fiction
C. Science fiction
D. Speculative fiction
E. Poetry
F. Plays
G. Related nonfiction
II. Precursors to dystopian fiction
A. Utopia, by Thomas More
B. The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
C. The City of the Sun, by Tomasso Campanella
D. English Romantic Writers
1. Mary Shelley
2. William Blake
3. William Wordsworth
4. Samuel Coleridge
5. John Keats
6. George Byron
7. Percy Shelley
E. American Transcendentalists
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Henry David Thoreau
F. Modernists
1. William Butler Yeats
2. Samuel Beckett
3. T.S. Eliot
III. Overview of historical influences on dystopian fiction
A. Paradigm shift from medieval to early modern era
1. Capitalism
2. Enlightenment ideology
3. Science
B. The Industrial Revolution
1. Steam
2. Electricity
3. Assembly line
C. Atomic Bomb
D.Digital Age
IV. Major figures in dystopian literature
A. Contributions of novelists: e.g. George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Anthony Burgess, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Stephenson, William Gibson, Samuel Delany, Mary Shelley
B. Contributions of non-fiction writers: e.g. modernity and technocultural theorists
C. Contributions of poets: e.g. Yeats, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot
D. Contributions of playwrights: Samuel Beckett
V. Technocultural Theory
A. Frankfurt School
1. Marcuse
2. Adorno
3. Horkheimer
B. Afrofuturism
1. Technoracism
2. Technopower relations
C. Posthumanism: Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
D. Anarcho Primitivism
E. Techno Utopians
F. Other texts and theory
VI. Literary Research
A. Secondary Sources
B. MLA Documentation
VII. Semiotics and Cultural Imagination
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Fiction
Utopia. More, Thomas. Dover, 1997 (classic).
The New Atlantic. Bacon, Francis. Dover, 2003 (classic).
The City of the Sun. Campanella, Tomasso. Dover, 2003 (classic).
1984. Orwell, George. Mass Market, 2006 (classic).
Brave New World. Huxley, Aldous. Harper, 2006 (classic).
Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury, Ray. Simon & Schuster, 2013 (classic).
The Left Hand of Darkness. Le Guin, Ursula. Ace, 2000 (classic).
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Dick, Philip K. Del Rey, 1996 (classic).
A Clockwork Orange. Burgess, Anthony. Norton, 1986 (classic).
Neuromancer. Gibson, William. Mass Market, 1984 (classic).
The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood, Margaret. Anchor, 1998 (classic).
Parable of the Sower. Butler, Octavia. Grand Central, 2000 (classic).
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. Delany, Samuel. Wesleyan, 1996 (classic).
Snow Crash. Stephenson, Neal. Spectra, 2000 (classic).
Oryx and Crake. Atwood, Margaret. Anchor, 2004 (classic).
The Road. McCarthy, Cormac. Vintage, 2006 (classic).
Into the Forest, Jean Hegland. Dial, 1998 (classic).
Super Sad True Love Story. Shteyngart, Gary. Random House, 2011 (classic).
Station Eleven. St. John Mandel, Emily. Vintage, 2014 (classic).
The Wasteland. Eliot. T.S. W.W. Norton & Co., 2000 (classic).
"The Second Coming." Yeats, William Butler. Shamrock Eden, 2010 (classic).
"The World is Too Much With Us." Wordsworth, William (classic).
Frankenstein: Norton Critical Edition. Shelly, Mary. W.W. Norton and Co, 2012 (classic).
Endgame. Beckett, Samuel. Grove Press, 2009 (classic).
Upgrade Soul, Collectors Edition, by Ezra Claytan Daniels. Oni Press. 2021
Bitch Planet, Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine, by Kelly Sue DeConnick. 2015 (classic).
Critical Theory
Technoculture. Shaw, Debra Benita. Berg, 2008 (classic).
Civilization and Its Discontents. Freud, Sigmund. Penguin, 2010 (classic).
Power/Knowledge. Foucault, Michel. Vintage, 1980 (classic).
Eros and Civilization. Marcuse, Herbert. Beacon, 1974 (classic).
The Dialectic of Enlightenment. Adorno, Theodor & Max Horkheimer. Stanford UP, 2007 (classic).
Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Dery, Mark. Duke UP, 1994 (classic).
How We Became Posthuman. Hayles, Katherine. U of Chicago P, 1999 (classic).
"A Cyborg Manifesto." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Haraway, Donna. Routledge, 1990 (classic).
AfroFuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture. Womack, Ytasha. Chicago Review, 2013 (classic).
Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization. Zerzan, John. Feral House, 2002 (classic).
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections. Ed. Zerzan, John. Feral House, 2005 (classic).
Twilight of the Machines. Zerzan, John. Feral House, 2008 (classic).
Endgame: The Problem of Civilization. Jenson, Derrick. Seven Stories, 2006 (classic).
Methodology of the Oppressed. Sandoval, Chela. U of Minnessota P, 2000 (classic).
The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Headrick, Daniel. Oxford UP, 1981 (classic).
Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Adas, Michael. Cornell UP, 1990 (classic).
The Cyborg Handbook. Hables, Chris Gray. Routledge, 1995 (classic).
Darwin among the Machines. Dyson, George. Basic Books, 1997 (classic).
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. Kurzweil, Ray. Penguin,1999 (classic).
The Enlightenment. Porter, Roy. Palgrave, 2001 (classic).
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy. Hopkinson, Nalo & Gregory Rudledge. Arsenal, 2004 (classic).
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil, Ray. Penguin, 2006 (classic).
Race Against the Machine. Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAffee. Digital Frontier, 2012 (classic).
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. Ford, Martin. Basic, 2015 (classic).
Smarter than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence. Armstrong, Stuart. Machine Intelligence Research Institute, 2014 (classic).
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. Barrat, James. St. Martins, 2015 (classic).