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Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep in Boston in 1887 and wakes in the year 2000 to find that the era of competitive capitalism is long over, replaced by an era of co-operation. Wealth is produced by an "industrial army" and every citizen receives the same wage.
This edition contains a rich selection of appendices, including excerpts from Bellamy's Equality and other writings; contemporary responses (by William Morris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others); excerpts from utopian works by Morris and William Dean Howells; and an excerpt from Henry George's Progress and Poverty.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Edward Bellamy: A Brief Chronology
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Appendix A: Why and How Bellamy Wrote Looking Backward
Appendix B: William Morris's review of Looking Backward and Bellamy's review of Morris's News from Nowhere, plus periodical reviews of Looking Backward
Appendix C: Excerpt from "The Religion of Solidarity"
Appendix D: Passages from Equality Showing Development of Bellamy's Utopian Ideas 1887-1897
Appendix E: A Victorian "Angel In the House"—Emma Bellamy
Appendix F: A Response to Looking Backward by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Appendix G: "The True Remedy" from Henry George's Progress and Poverty (1897)
Appendix H: Excerpts from A Traveler From Altruria by William Dean Howells
Appendix I: An Excerpt on Education from William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890)
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