基本信息出版社：Dover Publications Inc.
页码：160 页
出版日期：1996年04月
ISBN：0486290387
条形码：9780486290386
版本：New Ed
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Dover Thrift Editions
外文书名：回溯过去

内容简介 It is the year 2000 and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere.

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 attach on the social ills of 19th-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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介 Daniel H. Borus is assistant professor of history at the University of Rochester. His scholarly work has concentrated on the cultural history of the United States between 1877 and 1930. He is author of Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market (1989) and editor of These United States: Portraits of America from the 1920's (1992). He is currently at work on a general study of the relationship between culture and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.