Looking Backward & Looking Further Backward
Utopian Visions, Anti-Utopian Satire, and the Gilded Age Debate Over Capitalism and Social ReformBy Edward Bellamy, Arthur Dudley Vinton
Length13h 19m
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This compelling paired volume stages one of the most consequential debates in late nineteenth-century American utopian fiction. Moving between visionary social prophecy, speculative romance, political satire, and argumentative sequel, it contrasts a harmonious future organized around collective provision with a searching reconsideration of that ideal's premises. Its standout achievement lies in the dialogue created by the two narratives: utopia is presented not as a settled destination but as a literary and ethical problem. Edward Bellamy's influential social vision helped catalyze the Nationalist movement and made fiction a vehicle for public discussion of industrial inequality, monopoly, labor, and democratic reform. Arthur Dudley Vinton's answering work enters that conversation from a more skeptical position, testing the costs, assumptions, and institutional consequences of planned social order. Together, these voices illuminate the era's contest between reformist aspiration, individual liberty, and anxieties about modern economic power. Recommended for students and general readers of American literature, political thought, and utopian studies, this volume offers an unusually rich opportunity to read proposal beside response. Its juxtaposition rewards close attention to narrative form as well as social theory, fostering a productive dialogue about equality, governance, technology, and the enduring limits of imagined futures.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length13 hrs 19 mins
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Publish dateJun 5, 2018
LanguageEnglish
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