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Northrop Frye begins his essay ‘Varieties of Literary Utopias’ with the observation that
There are two social conceptions which can be expressed only in terms of myth. One is the social contract, which presents an account of the origins of society. The other is the utopia, which presents an imaginative vision of the telos or end at which social life aims. These two myths both begin in an analysis of the present, the society that confronts the mythmaker, and they project this analysis in time or space. The contract projects it into the past, the utopia into the future or some distant place. (Frye, 25)
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Northrop Frye, ‘Varieties of Literary Utopias’, Dedalus vol. xciv (Spring, 1965);
reprinted in F. E. Manuel (ed.), Utopias and Utopian Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966).
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Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971).
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C. N. Manlove, The Impulse of Fantasy Literature Kent (Ohio: Kent State University, 1983).
William Morris, News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest, ed. James Redmond (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970).
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Haynes, R.D. (1991). Dream Allegory in Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner. In: Filmer, K. (eds) The Victorian Fantasists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21277-4_11
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