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In the late 1800s, Americans flocked to cities, immigration, slums, and unemployment burgeoned, and America's role in foreign affairs grew. This period also spawned a number of fictional glimpses into the future. After the publication of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888, there was an outpouring of utopian fantasy, many of which promoted socialism, while others presented refined versions of capitalism. Jean Pfaelzer's study traces the impact of the utopian novel and the narrative structures of these sentimental romances. She discusses progressive, pastoral, feminist, and apocalyptic utopias, as well as the genre's parodic counterpart, the dystopia.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- One - Time Yet to Come: Notions of History and Narrative Forms
- Two - Edward Bellamy and the Progressivve Utopia
- Three - William Dean Howells and the Pastoral Utopia
- Four - Dystopias: Parody and Satire
- Five - Conservative Utopias: The Future Moves Toward the Present in Righteous Dominion
- Six - Ignatius Donnelly and the Apocalyptic Utopias
- Seven - A State of Her Own; or, What Did Women Want?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index