The Awakening of Edward Bellamy 39 three characters from Looking Backward: Dr. Leete, Julian West, and Mr. Barton. Dr. Leete, West's guide in the year 2000, asserts that although "[o]nly a century has passed . . . many a millennium in the world's history has seen changes less extraordinary" (56). More to the point, Dr. Leete notes that LibriVox recording of Looking Backward: 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy. Read by Anna Simon. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, , first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The Utopianism of survival: Bellamy's looking backward and Twain's a Connecticut Yankee Download Citation | On Jan 1, 2020, Jerôme von Gebsattel published Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate Looking Backward, a utopic novel about life in the United States in the year 2000, was published in 1888. This was period that might be described as the best of times and the worst of times, to Full catalog description. English-language editions. Looking Backward (electronic edition, based on the c1917 Vanguard edition), by Edward Bellamy, ed. by Geoffrey Sauer (HTML at Wayback Machine) Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Melbourne: Andrade's, n.d.), by Edward Bellamy (PDF (60 MB) in Australia) According to Daphne Patai in her introduction to the book Looking Backward 1988-1888, Bellamy repeatedly emphasized in his writings that economic equality was an indispensable prerequisite for any Looking Backward Looking Backward is a novel by Edward Bellamy that was first published in 1888. Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of Looking Backward, scene by scene break-downs, and more. Summary & Analysis Chapters 1-7 Chapters 8-14 Chapters 15-22 Chapters 23-28 Analysis Full Book Full Book Summary Characters An Analysis of Formal Education in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward - Volume 4 Issue 4. Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. In his 1888 novel Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy, a New England writer who lived during the 19 th century, imagines the 20 th century as a socialist utopia in which capitalism and private property are a thing of the past, government is small, and society comprises citizens who work cooperatively for the common good. yourselves free in the nineteenth century," Dr. Leete says in Edward Bellamy's bestselling 1888 novel, Looking Backward. He argues that Americans were anything but free: "The meaning of the word could not then, however, have been at all what it is at present, or you use Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward to answer the question Bellamy's own home tow onf Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, before the Irish and the mills had invaded it in the 1860s and 1870s. In Equality, publishe in 189d7 as an extended gloss on Looking Backward, 1 Edward Bellamy , Looking Backward, ed Joh . 2000-1887,n L Thomas (Cambridge Mass. 1967), pp. 114-17. Bellamy's own home tow onf Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, before the Irish and the mills had invaded it in the 1860s and 1870s. In Equality, publishe in 189d7 as an extended gloss on Looking Backward, 1 Edward Bellamy , Looking Backward, ed Joh . 2000-1887,n L Thomas (Cambridge Mass. 1967), pp. 114-17. Bellamy's own home town of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, before the