| Description |
1 online resource(311 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The John Harvard Library |
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John Harvard library.
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| 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 |
First published in 1888. Reprinted from the corrected MS |
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Sequel: Equality |
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In English |
| Subject |
Literature.
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Littérature contestataire américaine
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Protest literature, American.
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Protest movements.
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Protestbewegung
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Radicalism.
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Science fiction.
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Social problems -- Fiction.
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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Two thousand, A.D. -- Fiction.
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Utopias -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101816
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| Genre/Form |
Time-travel fiction.
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Utopian fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Thomas, John L., editor
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
67014337 |
| ISBN |
9780674866157 |
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