Introduction: The utopian mode in dialogue
Copious discourse: utopia and dialogue
"Godly conversation": The reformation of utopia
"It is the man who speaks with God who knows more": education and the decline of dialogue in Christianopolis and the city of the sun
"Private conference" and "public affairs": natural philosophy, dialogue and the ideal society in New Atlantis
"Counsel and endevors": millennium and reform in the 1640s
"Instructive discourses": the proliferation and rejection of utopia in the 1640s and beyond.