Title Looking backward, 2000-1887 / Edward Bellamy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Matthew Beaumont

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 220 pages) Series Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edward Bellamy; LOOKING BACKWARD 2000-1887; Explanatory Notes Summary Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia. Matthew Beaumont's lively edition explores the political and psychological peculiarities of this celebrated utopian fiction. ;'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more than a hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxvi) Notes English Print version record Subject Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction Social problems -- Fiction Time travel -- Fiction Utopias -- Fiction Utopias. Social problems Time travel Two thousand, A.D. Utopias SUBJECT Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction Subject Massachusetts -- Boston Genre/Form Electronic books Utopian fiction Fiction Utopian fiction. Utopian fiction. Form Electronic book Author Beaumont, Matthew, 1972- ISBN 0191517461 9780191517464 1281146919 9781281146915 9781435609440 1435609441 9786611146917 6611146911

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