Peter G. Stillman
Publications in Utopian Political Thought
The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (Lexington Books: Lanham, Md.,
forthcoming 2005), with Laurence Davis.
"The Handmaid's Tale as a Postcolonial Text," forthcoming in Robert Moss, ed., The Open Eye (Ottawa, Ont.:
University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming 2006).
"Le Guin's The Dispossessed as Ecological Political Theory," forthcoming in Davis and Stillman, eds., The
New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (Lexington Books: Lanham, Md., forthcoming
2005).
"Henry Neville's Isle of Pines: the full, annotated text with an interpretive essay," forthcoming in Utopian
Studies.
"Dystopian Critiques, Utopian Possibilities, and Human Purposes in Octavia Butler's Parables," Utopian
Studies 14, no. 1 (2003), pp. 15-35.
"Pleasure and Politics in Disney's Utopia," with Adelaide H. Villmoare, Canadian Review of American
Studies 32, no. 1 (2002), pp. 81-104.
"'With a Moral View Design'd': Gulliver's Travels as a Utopian Text," Q/W/E/R/T/Y 11 (Octobre 2001), pp.
97-107.
"Dystopian Visions and Utopian Anticipations: Terry Bisson's Pirates of the Universe as Critical Dystopia,"
Science-Fiction Studies 28 (Nov. 2001), pp. 365-82.
"'Nothing is, but what is not': Utopia as Practical Political Philosophy," Critical Review of International
Social and Political Philosophy 3, nos. 2-3 (Summer/Autumn 2000), pp. 9-24; also in Barbara Goodwin, ed.,
The Philosophy of Utopia (Essex: Frank Cass, 2000).
"Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Rousseau's Thought," EMF (special issue on French Utopias, 1500-1800) 5
(1999), pp. 60-77.
"Margaret Atwood's Critique and Reconstruction of Public and Private in Bodily Harm and The
Handmaid's Tale," Q/W/E/R/T/Y 8 (Octobre 1998), pp. 207-215.
"Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale," with S. Anne Johnson, Utopian Studies 5,
no. 2 (1994), pp. 70-86.
"The Past Decade of the History of Utopian Thought," Utopian Studies 1, no. 1 (1990), pp. 103-110.
"A Critique of Ideal Worlds: Hegel and Marx on Modern Utopian Thought," in G. Saccaro del Buffa and
Arthur O. Lewis, eds., Utopie per Gli Anni Ottanta: Studi Interdisciplinari sui temi, la storia, i progetti (Roma:
Gangemi, 1986), pp. 635-673.
"Mark Twain: Technology, Social Change, and Political Power," with Mary Lyndon Shanley, in Benjamin
Barber and Michael McGrath, eds., The Artist and Political Vision (New Brunswick, N.J.: Trans-Action
Books, 1982), pp. 267-89.
"The Harem Sequence in Montesquieu's Persian Letters: A Critique of Political and Familial Despotism,"
with Mary Lyndon Shanley, in Jean Elshtain, ed., The Family in Political Thought (Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp. 66-79.
"The Eldorado Episode in Voltaire's Candide," with Mary Lyndon Shanley, Eighteenth-Century Life, VI, nos.
2-3 (January-May 1981), pp. 79-92.
"The Limits to Behaviorism: A Critique of B. F. Skinner's Social and Political Thought," American Political
Science Review, LXIX, no. 1 (March 1975), pp. 202-13.