Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Dark Foretelling of a Chinese Invasion on USA in the Year 2023By Arthur Dudley Vinton
Length5h
About this audiobook
Arthur Dudley Vinton's Looking Further Backward is a polemical dystopian rejoinder to Edward Bellamy's immensely influential Looking Backward. Adopting the sequel as a form of ideological rebuttal, Vinton extends Bellamy's imagined collectivist future only to expose, in his view, its fatal weaknesses: bureaucratic regimentation, economic stagnation, civic enfeeblement, and vulnerability to external conquest. Its style is didactic, satirical, and argumentative, belonging to the late nineteenth-century tradition of utopian and anti-utopian fiction in which narrative serves as political diagnosis. Vinton was an American writer and lawyer shaped by the debates of the Gilded Age, when industrial capitalism, labor unrest, socialism, and nationalism were being fiercely contested. Bellamy's novel had inspired clubs, reformers, and a serious political movement; Vinton's book emerges from this climate as a conservative counter-text, warning that schemes of centralized equality might destroy the liberties and energies they promise to perfect. Readers interested in the origins of dystopian political fiction will find this book illuminating. It is especially valuable beside Bellamy, revealing how speculative fiction became a battleground for competing visions of modern society.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, General Fiction
Length5 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Looking Further Backward (Political Dystopia) (Annotated)
10Lecture VII
2Dedication
11Lecture VIII
3Preface
12Lecture IX
4Lecture I
13Lecture X
5Lecture II
14Lecture XI
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6Lecture III
15Lecture XII
7Lecture IV
16Lecture XIII
8Lecture V
17Lecture XIV
9Lecture VI
18Memorable Quotes
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