Happiness Optimism Anti-Utopia Loneliness Paradise UTOPIAS Civilisation Anger DYSTOPIAS Horror Dream Ideal Safety Order Peace Urban Pollution Decay Bleak Stability Hope Destruction Unsettling

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I would like to extend my gratitude to the President of Hacettepe University Prof. Dr. A. Haluk ÖZEN and his team for their kind support towards the realisation of the second of the graduate conferences, “Innovative Representations of ‘Utopias’ in Studies in English,” organised by the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies and held on 15-16 March 2016, and the publication of this book. I also convey my heartfelt thanks to the speakers at the conference for sharing with us their noteworthy research honouring the 500th anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. Furthermore, I owe special thanks to the members of the administrative board of the Centre for British Literary and Cultural Studies for their unequivocal support towards the publication of selected papers presented at the conference. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Burçin EROL, the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, for her invaluable support. I am also truly grateful to the referees, Prof. Dr. Burçin EROL, Prof. Dr. Huriye REİS, Prof. Dr. Aytül ÖZÜM, Prof. Dr. Hande SEBER, Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan AKILLI, Dr. Pınar TAŞDELEN, Dr. Jason M. WARD and Dr. Aslı DEĞİRMENCİ for their meticulous efforts in reviewing the papers. I also express my gratitude to Res. Assist. Şafak HORZUM and Res. Assist. Zümre Gizem YILMAZ for their assistance towards the organisation of the conference and the publication of this book. I am also thankful to Res. Assist. Özden DERE, Res. Assist. Merve DİKİCİLER, Res. Assist. Selim ERDEM, Res. Assist. Ulaş ÖZGÜN and Res. Assist. Kübra VURAL who have helped with the proof reading. Moreover, I am thankful to the personnel at Hacettepe Basımevi for their diligent wor