![]() ![]() Exiled from the past, West excitedly settles into the ideal society of the future, while still fearing that he has dreamt up his experiences as a time traveller.Įdward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) is a thunderous indictment of industrial capitalism and a resplendent vision of life in a socialist utopia. The squalid slums of Boston have been replaced by broad streets, and technological inventions have transformed people's everyday lives. In little more than a hundred years the horrors of nineteenth-century capitalism have been all but forgotten. America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. 'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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