In the process, they join Julian in his quest to understand how utopia emerged without bloodshed or revolution. Every day, new readers are transported along with Julian West - a wealthy young Bostonian who somehow sleeps for 113 years - from the poverty, disease, violence and corruption of late-nineteenth-century industrial America to a nation of well-planned cities, full employment, material abundance, good health and social harmony. Among the most popular utopian novels ever published, Looking Backward remains available in several editions. It is a product of North America's, and Victorian Britain's, peak of faith in science and technology as panaceas. A man of the future: Bellamy's utopian vision considered the use and abuse of technology.Įdward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) is, by contrast, an avowedly utopian work, looking positively towards the future.
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