Title Looking backward, 2000-1887 Edited by John L. Thomas

Published Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages) Series The John Harvard library John Harvard library. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Thomas, John L. -- A Note on the Text -- Preface -- Chapter I. -- Chapter II. -- Chapter III. -- Chapter IV. -- Chapter V. -- Chapter VI. -- Chapter VII. -- Chapter VIII. -- Chapter IX. -- Chapter X. -- Chapter XI. -- Chapter XII. -- Chapter XIII. -- Chapter XIV. -- Chapter XV. -- Chapter XVI. -- Chapter XVII. -- Chapter XVIII. -- Chapter XIX. -- Chapter XX. -- Chapter XXI. -- Chapter XXII. -- Chapter XXIII. -- Chapter XXIV. -- Chapter XXV. -- Chapter XXVI. -- Chapter XXVII. -- Chapter XXVIII. -- Postscript -- Backmatter Summary This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions-electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting-ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attack on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition-that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction Social problems -- Fiction Time travel -- Fiction Utopias -- Fiction HISTORY / General. Social problems Time travel Two thousand, A.D. Utopias SUBJECT Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction Subject Massachusetts -- Boston Genre/Form Fiction Utopian fiction. Science fiction. Science fiction. Form Electronic book Author Thomas, John L., editor ISBN 9780674866157 0674866150

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