Tag Archives: Looking Backward

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

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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

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