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The White Left in the thinking of Edward Bellamy and the imagination of Carson McCullers
Edward Bellamy joins the White Left in his 1887 utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887. Carson McCullers briefly illuminates the White Left in her 1940 novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Continue reading
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Edward Bellamy’s post-corporate utopia
Edward Bellamy had harsh words for Gilded Age capitalism. But he also shared the perspectives of some of corporate capitalism’s biggest boosters, then and now. Continue reading
Looking Backward: the coach scene illustrated
As a history lecturer, I have for many years used the coach scene in Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000-1887 as a way to describe the deep sense of insecurity that Americans lived with during the Gilded Age. I often … Continue reading