SOURCE: Gardiner, Jane. “Form and Reform in Looking Backward.” American Transcendental Quarterly New Series 2, no. 1 (March 1988): 69-82.
In the following essay, Gardiner contends that the form and structure of Looking Backward were perhaps more instrumental in generating a movement toward social reform than was the implied comparison between nineteenth-century Boston and Boston in the year 2000.
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