Visões da igualdade em uma utopia oitocentista: A Icária de Etienne Cabet (1842)

Abstract

This article attempts to examine the utopian literature of the nineteenth century, approaching more directly the imaginary society devised by Etiènne Cabet, in the novel titled Travel to Icaria (1842). More directly, it is examined the question of the conceptions of equality, in the social world and in the spatial planning, offered by this imaginary city. This more specific analysis is preceded by a brief introduction to the notion of utopic gender. The work of Cabet is addressed in their contexts, and its analysis is justified because it concerns a bridge between literature and society, since this work has aroused great interest of readers of the time and even has inspired a motivation for carrying out specific utopian experiments.