Utopian Studies, January 1st, 2004
IT SEEMS TO BE A MATTER almost of convention, when introducing or concluding a study of utopianism, to cite a celebrated statement by Oscar Wilde, formulated in an article on 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism' from 1891. Wilde proclaimed, first, that '[a] map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at'; and, second, that '[p]rogress is the realisation of Utopias'. Marie Louise Berneri started the trend in 1950, in her Journey Through Utopia, where Wilde's lapidary remarks on the importance of a utopian cartography comprise the book's epigraph (xii). More recently,...
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