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Utopia

Thomas More (1478–1535) · 1516

InferredFuller's use of 'Utopia' functions here as both a concept and an ironic term for the ideal society she describes. The term derives from Thomas More's Utopia (1516), and as a literary and philosophical concept, it was thoroughly embedded in nineteenth-century discourse. Fuller's usage is allusive rather than a direct citation of More's text.

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“Perhaps he has gone to the post office to take out letters from his friends in Utopia," thought I.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p295

Inferred Fuller's use of 'Utopia' functions here as both a concept and an ironic term for the ideal society she describes. The term derives from Thomas More's Utopia (1516), and as a literary and philosophical concept, it was thoroughly embedded in nineteenth-century discourse. Fuller's usage is allusive rather than a direct citation of More's text.