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- ↑ Kenneth M. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888–1900, Kent, OH, Kent State University Press, 1976; pp. 186–207.
- ↑ Richard Toby Widdicombe, Edward Bellamy: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Criticism, New York, Garland, 1988.
- ↑ Lyman Tower Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516–1975: An Annotated Bibliography, Boston, G. K. Hall, 1979.
- ↑ G. Claeys Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospective, (Pickering and Chatto, London, 2008), J. Pfaelzer, The Utopian Novel in America 1886–1896: The Politics of Form, (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1984), K. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888–1900, (Kent State University Press, Kent, 1976), K. Roemer, Utopian Audiences, How Readers Locate Nowhere, (University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 2003), C.J. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: a study of American utopias, 1865–1917 (1997), F. Shor, Utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America, 1888–1918, (Greenwood Press, Westport Connecticut, 1997), and especially L.T. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature, 1516–1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography (Garland Publishing, New York, 1988).
- ↑ Fabi, Maria Giulia (January 1, 2001). Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel . University of Illinois Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780252026676.
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