Mackenzie Turpen Dr. Acker Looking Backward Historical Sources of Looking Backward Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy consists of different genres such as science fiction and a utopian type novel, which reflects his version of a utopian society. However, as a historical analysis, it gives a depiction on what was taking place at the time when published, while also shaping our understanding of society during the author’s present time frame and even giving a mere glimpse of what the present day
Author of utopian novel, Looking Backward, Bellamy depicts a futuristic America based on his political ideas and led to mass movements of political parties. The novel was commonly said to refer to actual economic and technological developments of the time and the idealistic community described in his literature piece revolved around his idealistic new legal system. In this legal system of Bellamy’s, he attempts to diminish crimes not related to inequality by increasing
The turn of the twentieth century in America marked the beginnings of the progressive era and with it, a redefinition of freedom as it was known. Much pressure was exerted on the government to adopt socialist policies and books such as Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward showed the masses the benefits of socialist solutions to the issues of the industrial era. However, instead of following many European countries into becoming socialist, the solutions of modern liberalism prevailed in America. They aimed
No matter where they live, the intellectuals through their power of reasoning and understanding feel and call for the immediate requirements of humanity. On this line, they pave the way for the public and crystallize the obsessions in their works of any genre type. The intellectuals place and role in society, their tasks and obligations, the status they ascribe to themselves and that society ascribes to them, their streams of thoughts and attitudes depicted in their works have always been called