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, ele...

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1. Verfasser:	Bellamy, Edward 1850-1898 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Thomas, John L. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Univ. Press 1967
Schlagworte:	Social problems > Fiction Time travel > Fiction Two thousand, A.D. > Fiction Utopias > Fiction Boston (Mass.) > Fiction Fiktionale Darstellung Science fiction Utopian fiction
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	314 S.